People: War & Defense

Corporal Winthrop Rockefeller returned to Manhattan from maneuvers in North Carolina with a full-blown mustache, advice on how to stay rich in the Army. "The best investment I ever made," he confided, "was not learning how to play craps or poker." ∙ ∙ Paul V. McNutt's pretty daughter, Louise, 20, offered a plan for gas conservation: "Park more and drive less." ∙ ∙ Enormously popular with the British as radio entertainers, oldtime U.S. Film Stars Ben Lyon and Bebe Daniels will come home next week "to tell the people of America what is needed for the war effort. . . ." ∙ ∙ Parachutist Max Schmeling will referee a prize fight in Brussels next week. He's still on "recovery leave." ∙ ∙ When veteran Speed Flyer Laura Ingalls landed at Albuquerque her landing gear crumpled and the ship did a headstand. Isolationist Laura, uninjured, promptly blamed her defective landing gear on "this system of priorities."