People, Dec. 27, 1937

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In England, Captain John A. Murdocke owns Kilgore & French, one of the world's half-dozen great tailoring houses, and is admitted to the royal enclosure at Ascot. In the U. S., he is a style reporter for Men's Wear magazine, Interwoven Socks and Palm Beach Suits. Arriving in Manhattan last week, the impeccable Captain Murdocke listed the U. S. men he considers best dressed (among others): Cinemactors John Loder, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Adolphe Menjou, Tyrone Power, Clark Gable; Socialites Angier Biddle Duke, Anthony J. Drexel Biddle Jr., Marshall Field III, Joseph E. Widener, Peter Widener, William Goadby Loew.

We like the U. S. but want more pay—Babs with our money runs away. Such was the legend striking employes of three F. W. Woolworth stores in New York carried on picket placards day after 25-year-old Countess Haugwitz-Revent-low (Barbara Hutton) spent five minutes in a courtroom on the fifth floor of Manhattan's Federal Courthouse, signed away her U. S. citizenship, became solely a Danish subject like her husband, sailed back to England on the Europa after 36 hours in the U. S. Through her attorneys the granddaughter of the 5¢-&-10¢ chain's Founder Frank Winfield Woolworth explained she desired to avoid "various legal complications." Biggest complication avoided: the estimated $21,000,000 U. S. inheritance tax her estate would lose at her death.

To Europe on the Europa, after a fortnight in the U. S. so modestly spent that none but intimates knew she was in the country, sailed Titian-haired Stephanie Julienne Richter Princess Hohenlohe-Waldenbourg-Schillingsfürst, Hungarian beauty, talented musician, crack shot, friend of half of Europe's great. Along with Italy's Queen Elena, she bears the distinction of having been personally decorated by Adolf Hitler.

At a recent dinner, Wartime Secretary of War Newton D. Baker was shocked to see two graduates of unrevealed colleges using a "banjo grip" on their forks. To Cleveland's Western Reserve University, of which he is chairman of the board of trustees, Newton Baker (a Johns Hopkins man) forthwith appealed against the bad manners of recent college graduates. Last week Western Reserve's downtown unit, Cleveland College, announced that at Mr. Baker's suggestion it was establishing a class in "The Technique of Social and Business Intercourse." The course's laboratory: teas and dinners.