Fiorello By Any Other Name

When reporters asked Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia (who had previously vetoed as premature a move to name a drive after General MacArthur) how he felt about changing the name of New York's LaGuardia Airport to MacArthur Field, the Mayor observed spontaneously and artlessly: It's still a good airport. A good field by any name."

Basso De Profundia

Free again in the land of the free was veteran operatic Basso Ezio Pinza after two and a half months on Ellis Island as a potentially dangerous enemy alien. Roman-born Pinza was released on parole announced his intention of doing everything he could to help the United Nations win the war, resuming his career.

Memory Book

Leaving behind a trail of incredulous stares and dropped jaws, an ugly man from yesterday waddled one evening through Chicago's Loop, made a round of nightclubs, moved off again into limbo. Pudgy Al Capone was discreetly revisiting his onetime kingdom.

Against towering Ernst Franz Sedgwick ("Putzi") Hanfstaengl, onetime piano-playmg intimate of Adolf Hitler Bostonian Francis Wilson filed suit for $1,800, charged that he had advanced that sum for the education of Putzi's son at Harvard, never got it back. Son Egon Hanfstaengl left Harvard last year to join the U.S. Army Air Forces. His father was last heard from in a Canadian concentration camp in 1941.

From Northeastern Penitentiary in Pennsylvania emerged newspaper-and-dope-sheet Publisher Moses Louis Annenberg, a sick man (low blood pressure and heart disease) on parole. He had served 23 months of his three-year sentence for income-tax evasion.

Not So Hot

To the hand of Leon Henderson came a rhymed beef about Government girls' inability to find busses to take them to work, even at 6 a.m. From Leon Henderson the young lady received a sheet of red note paper, dated "6 a.m. at the office," containing a holographic reply:

I read your verse--believe it or not

Some part is good--some not so hot.

You indicate I talk all day--

But half time's spent on what other

people say.

My life is changed--it's not the same

But Hitler is the one I blame.

L.H.

Uniformalities

Commissioned a captain in the Army Air Corps, multimillionaire Sportsman John Hay ("Jock") Whitney resigned his high, long-handled* good-will post in Washington, to report soon for service duty in Intelligence.

New Jersey's ex-Governor Harold Giles Hoffman, who shed nine pounds a week for four weeks to get into active duty as a major, made the grade on his second physical examination, was ordered to report at Colorado's Lowry Field this week.

After and if he gets his final U.S citizenship papers, Cinemactress Gene Tierneys dress-designing husband Oleg Cassini wants to enlist. Everybody but Cassini was prepared for his citizenship last week in Los Angeles. Present as witnesses were his wife, also Cinemactress Cobina Wright Jr. and Mrs. Victor Mature. Cassini turned up without the necessary papers proving his past. Hearing postponed.

* Director of the Motion Picture Division of the Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs.

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