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When his chosen few - several of them plucked from Bible Institute and Sunday School teams - arrived at Chicago's Wrig ley Field fortnight ago for their "spring training," they discovered another of Mr. Wrigley's novel ideas. Part of their train ing was a compulsory course at Helena Rubinstein's Gold Coast beauty salon - to learn about makeup, posture and other whatnots usually neglected by lady athletes...
...King's Counsel, an M.P., a Cabinet Minister before becoming Lord Chief Justice. Kindly, diffident in private, he was sometimes blisteringly outspoken on the bench. "The only impartiality pos sible to the human mind," said he once, "is that which arises from an understand ing of neither side of the case." On judges : "The secret [of being a successful judge consists], I fancy, in two things: first, a prolonged and severe training at the Bar; secondly, a full-bottomed wig. . . . The business of a judge is to hold his tongue until the last possible minute...
...blood, immediately took a new whack at her first love. (On one occasion she tore off a searing indictment of WPA in a spectacular series of articles.) But her multitudinous other interests took too much of her time. Gradually her newspapering simmered down to review ing books by her great and good friend Thomas Mann...
...Lockheed's twin-tailed P-38 Lightning, which pilots heartily damned three years ago as clumsy and tricky. With plenty of high-altitude performance, the Lightning is now not only untricky, but a speedy, versatile performer, good for dive-bombing and troop-strafing as well as for meet ing the best of enemy fighters...
MUTINY IN JANUARY - Carl Van Doren - Viking ($3.50). On a January morn ing in 1781, Brigadier General Anthony Wayne wrote desperately to George Washington, informing him of "a mutiny that for a week threatened the Americans with the violent collapse of their whole army and the loss of their prospects of independence." The mutineers (from the Pennsylvania Line regiments, stationed under Wayne at Morristown, NJ.) rebelled at their lack of pay, food, decent clothing. British General Sir Henry Clinton hoped to persuade the malcontents to join him in Manhattan. The full story of the spying and intrigue is told...