People

High Life

For the second time in eight months Princess Olga Troubetzkoi, late of the Philadelphia Social Register, was jugged in Manhattan, charged with running a high-toned bawdyhouse.

A commercial photographer at the Urea Casino in Rio de Janeiro saw a good shot, took it, then lost his plates to his boiling-mad subject. The shot: Leon Henderson dancing the samba with a showgirl.

"The ability to wear clothes in keeping with one's budget" is the Fashion Academy's chief requirement for a place on its annual "best-dressed" list. Among last week's winners: Mrs. Wendell Willkie, Betsey Gushing Roosevelt Whitney (bride of "Jock," heir to $27,000,000), Cosmetiqueen Elizabeth Arden, Cinestar Paulette Goddard.

In the lobby of Park Avenue's Drake Hotel, Pat di Cicco, husband of Gloria Vanderbilt, got to fighting with an Irish room clerk because the hotel would not lend him a pot to cook a chicken in.

Uncorked

In a book of reminiscences, Past Imperfect (Doubleday, Doran; $3), broadcasting Actress Ilka Chase cut loose from the Nice Nellyism required by radio, let her pen run on without inhibitions. Sample (of her youthful meeting with Novelist George Moore): "Moore was a spindly-legged, pot-bellied, bejowled little man, and he unexpectedly pinched my behind. I felt rather honored that my behind should have drawn the attention of the great master of English prose. . . ."

A crowd on the Mall in Washington got a demonstration of defense equipment from the top: OCDirector James M. Landis, who crouched behind a protective shield, played a stream of water on what might have been an incendiary.

Travelers

Francis B. Sayre, High Commissioner to the Philippines, having like MacArthur escaped from Bataan, came home to the U.S. bearing a four-foot sword, a gift for the President from General MacArthur--a trophy taken from a Japanese general killed on the field of battle.

Poet-Dramatist Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Lord Dunsany, English professor at Athens University since 1940, turned up safe & sound in Dublin, kept mum about how he got away from Nazi-occupied Greece.

Wind-Blown Straw?

From Berne came word that the original Quisling is appealing through Oslo newspapers for applicants to serve him as a bodyguard around the clock.

Retort

Chicago's Elizabeth Kirkpatrick (The Red Network) Dilling sued her husband Albert, his lawyer and Walter Winchell for $1,000,000 damages. Grounds: Albert, in bringing a countersuit for divorce, had made charges against her which he later withdrew, but not before Winchell had broadcast them.

Bedtime Story

George Emlen Roosevelt, 54-year-old Manhattan yachtsman and investment banker, cousin of the President, has found a personal solution for the housing shortage in Washington. On business visits to the Capital, he buys a round-trip ticket so that he cannot be ejected from Union Station, sleeps there curled up on a bench.

In the dark before dawn a corporal at Fort Bragg found a bunk still occupied after reveille, yanked off the blankets, bellowed: "Get the hell out of there, boy!" Up sat Pulitzer-Prizewinning Dramatist Maxwell Anderson, who had had himself smuggled in, had got what he went for: atmosphere for a new war play.

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