People: People, Mar. 22, 1948

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Queen Elizabeth, and set off on a tour of the town. They took in the Flower Show and the police lineup (where Michael was "mugged" for the Rogues' Gallery), shopped along Fifth Avenue, toured the docks, and visited a newspaper composing room. Michael later flew over the Statue of Liberty, and enjoyed the trip so much that he thought he might buy the plane.

Odds & Ends

Auctioned off in Paris to a curio collector*: a wavy blonde lock of Marie Antoinette's hair, snipped just before she was guillotined, and a chestnut tuft of Napoleon's, snipped after his death on St. Helena. Marie Antoinette's brought 20,000 francs (about $65), Napoleon's exactly half as much.

Luck was with almond-eyed Gertrude Voronoff, cousin-of Magda Lupescu Hohenzollern and wife of Dr. Serge Voronoff, 82-year-old exponent of youth-through-monkey-glands. A Bronx housewife had found what she thought was a cheap, flower-shaped brooch. After wearing it occasionally for two years, she discovered that it was set with 194 diamonds, 21 carved rubies and 56 amber topazes, and was worth some $5,000. She turned it over to the police, who recalled that such a brooch had been reported lost in 1943 by Mme. Voronoff, who promptly cabled from Monaco claiming it.

Hearth & Home

"There is a sleeping sickness among the women of the land," announced touring Novelist Fannie Hurst, in startled Providence. "This generaton of the daughters of career women is retrogressing into . . . that thing known as The Home."

Leggy Litterateuse Gypsy Rose Lee, 33, revealed her own plans to retrogress. After two pretty noisy marriages (one in a water taxi, another in which the bride disclosed that she felt like "an Aztec virgin being prepared for the sacrifice"), she decided to try something on the quiet side. Her groom-to-be: Spanish-born Painter Julio de Diego, 47, also making his third attempt.

After three years, buxom Carole Landis, 29, publicly considered shedding her fourth husband, Producer W. Horace Schmidlapp. Thinking it over, she concluded: "You can't have a good marriage and be parted as we have since our wedding."

Ups & Downs

Senators Robert A. Taft and Owen Brewster walked away from a forced landing in Maine. The engine of a plane they were in gave up 15 minutes out of Augusta, and the pilot landed on the solid-frozen Kennebec River. Ill effects: a slight leg-weariness after a half-mile hike through deep snow.

Millionheiress Barbara Hutton Troubetzkoy, her doctor said, was fit after two intestinal operations in a Swiss hospital, but may need a third (minor) operation.

Betty Grable went home to bed with a sprained ankle after a misstep during a studio dance rehearsal.

Lanai Turner settled down in a Hollywood hospital with a wrenched back and twisted left arm after a nasty fall in an on-the-set wrestling match with co-star Gene Kelly.

Tommy Harmon, Michigan halfback hero of 1940, felt and looked much better after a plastic surgery job on his well-beaten beak. Harmon, now a Los Angeles sports announcer, explained that he had grown tired of breathing through his mouth.