Dumb Friends

Liz Whitney said she would sell all her show horses except her white stallion Bon Nuit, concentrate on racing.

Richard Mifflin Kleberg, Texas Congressman and head of big, famed King Ranch, gave the Brazilian Government two fine bulls of the breed developed by King Ranch.

Mrs. Albert Payson Terhune announced that she might sell four of her late husband's nine famed dogs. His will, drafted when there were 35 dogs in the Sunnybank kennels, forbade selling them to city dwellers, empowered his widow to have nonsalable animals put to death.

Fortunes of War

Lieut. David F. H. McCormick, 27-year-old member of the harvester clan, was reported a prisoner in Italy. He had fought with the British in Libya.

Gene Raymond, actor husband of Cinesinger Jeanette MacDonald, was commissioned first lieutenant in the Army Air Corps. Said Jeanette: "For Gene's sake I am happy. . . . But I do get heartsick packing his things away."

Dude Hennick, dashing, black-a-vised flyer, will soon reappear in Milton Caniff's comic strip, Terry and the Pirates. When he disappeared, his real-life prototype, black-a-vised Frank L. ("Dude") Higgs, flying for the Chinese, had not been heard from. Dude wrote his sister that he was safe, "between Singapore and Rangoon," after helping fly Allied nationals from Hong Kong to Free China.

Comings & Goings

Reza Pahlavi, ex-Shah of Iran, who has been confined by the British on the island of Mauritius, got permission to go to Canada with his family.

Dolores Del Rio, her divorce from Cedric Gibbons final, planned to make a film in Mexico City. Orson Welles is making a film in Brazil. Halfway between the two places, said she, they will meet and "I will have an announcement to make."

The Ladies

Mrs. Junius Spencer Morgan, daughter-in-law of J. P., wrote Citizens' Song for the Citizens' Committee for the Army & Navy, whose vice chairman she is. The song was sung by oldtime Soprano Anna Case (widow of Clarence H. Mackay), with Fritz Kreisler at the piano, at a beefsteak party in a Manhattan brewery. Chorus:

Head, heart and hand,

United we stand;

Serving our country,

We rise through the land.

Queen Mary was photographed dandling her seventh and newest grandchild and godchild, Prince William Henry Andrew Frederick, three-month-old son of the Duke & Duchess of Gloucester. The princeling was christened fortnight ago by the retiring Archbishop of Canterbury.

Diana Barrymore appeared with her father and Uncle Lionel in a Hollywood radio show. Afterwards each gave her a red apple-the Royal Family mark of approval for successful young Barrymores.

Anne Morgan, busy, greying sister of J. P., held a reunion in Manhattan with cronies Anne O'Hare McCormick (New York Times correspondent) and Playwright Rachel Crothers. Occasion: a testimonial dinner celebrating Miss Morgan's 30-year effort to better the lot of business and professional women.

Retake

Artie Shaw, mercurial bandleader, married Elizabeth Jane Kern, daughter of Jerome Kern, in Yuma, Ariz. Exes: Cinemactress Lana Turner, Cinedirector Richard Alan Green.

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