The Literary Life

Richard Allen Knight, Manhattan's bibulous blisterer of the bar, went to the workhouse for 90 days for sending artful excoriations to members of the law profession. The disbarred attorney, who first attracted public attention by standing on his head at the Metropolitan Opera, took with him complete editions of the essays of Emerson and Montaigne. Informed that Knight had been "in a partial state of intoxication" when he wrote the letters, the judge who sentenced him observed:' "A lot of lawyers would like to know the brand he used."

Charged with impersonating Author John Steinbeck for a week, one Harry Dankert reminisced in Pittsburgh: "It was fun while it lasted. . . . Why, I didn't have to say much of anything. . . . People put words in my mouth. Anything I said, they thought was brilliant."

When the Philadelphia Athletics went to Boston to play the Red Sox they took along a new bat boy with an old baseball name--Cornelius McGillicuddy III, grandson of famed "Connie Mack," manager of the As for the last 41 years (see cut).

Grease Paint

Comic Jack Benny, international champion worrywart, got more to worry about. He turned producer in a big way--signed a contract with United Artists to set up Jack Benny Productions Inc., to make at least twelve $1,000,000 pictures in the next six years.

Britain's Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret Rose, now 16 and 11, went to the theater at night for the first time in their lives, with mother and father saw a musicomedy at London's Saville.

The perils of opera singing struck again: in an outdoor production of Carmen at Chicago's Soldier Field, Tenor Jan Kiepura spurned Mezzo-Soprano Gladys Swarthout so thoroughly that he knocked her cold against the stage floor. Carried off and revived, she finished the show with a banged-up forehead.

Uniformity

Major Elliott Roosevelt, hospitalized in Dayton, Ohio, with a knee injury the Army said laconically was "received at another field," was promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel in the Army Air Forces.

Sergeant Hank Greenberg was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Army Air Forces at Miami Beach.

Cinemactor Ramon Novarro, now 37, asked Mexico's Congress for permission to enlist in the U.S. Army. Novarro, who never became a U.S. citizen, would automatically lose his Mexican citizenship if he enlisted without permission.

Private Ralph McAllister Ingersoll, editor-on-leave of PM, started basic training with an Engineers shore regiment at Camp Edwards, Mass.

Novelist James Gould Cozzens (TIME, Aug. 3) won a first lieutenant's commission in the Army Air Forces.

Clark Gable, 41, was all set to enlist as a private in the Army Air Forces. His aim: a gunner's post. Columnist Hedda ("The Gabbler") Hopper promptly announced that because of an old agreement this meant Robert Taylor and Spencer Tracy would also enlist at the same time. Meantime Gable m.c.'d a War Department short-wave broadcast for the armed forces abroad, helped Mather Field's Army Air Forces Lieut. Jimmy Stewart overwhelm goggle-eyed Torcheuse Dinah Shore, in Hollywood for a screen career (see cut).

Society

Bald Millionaire Poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, irascible Father of Futurism ("Fascism is 100% Futuristic"), has left Italy for the eastern front as a major of Blackshirts.

Baron Gottfried von Cramm, graceful tennist, onetime jail bird (on a morals charge) has returned to Berlin from the eastern front and resumed his tennis.

Deed

Gaunt Amos Richards Eno Pinchot, participator with Brother Gifford in founding the Bull Moose party, father of the late Actress Rosamond (once The Nun in The Miracle), who killed herself in 1938, longtime anti-New Dealer, onetime America Firster, whose 68th birthday fell the day before Pearl Harbor, slashed several veins in one of his arms and was taken to a Westport, Conn, hospital. His condition: critical.

Name

The month-old second son of the Duke and Duchess of Kent was christened: Michael George Charles Franklin. Seventh in the line of succession to Britain's throne, he was the first royal Briton to bear a U.S. citizen's name--Franklin D. Roosevelt was his godfather and name giver. The Duke of Kent stood as President Roosevelt's proxy. After the ceremonies the King, Queen Mary and the Duke and Duchess all posed with the new Prince for a new page in the family album (see cut).

Dead or Alive Judge Joseph Force Crater may or may not have observed the twelfth anniversary of his disappearance. He was last seen entering a cab in Manhattan on August 6, 1930. The city's Missing Persons Bureau still gets false tips on his whereabouts, still keeps his case open. Insurance companies have closed it, have paid his widow $20,561.

Burma's Premier U Saw, in British custody charged with plotting with the Japanese, has died in Egypt, "well-informed Burmese circles" told the United Press in Chungking. U Saw has not died, the Burma Office told U.P. in London.

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