The Solid Flesh

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Beulah Louise Overell, now 19, acquitted of the bludgeon-&-blast death of her parents last October, was doing all right financially. The Overell estate, as valued in probate court: $309,977.

Carole Landis' estate was estimated at $20,000.

Literary Trapezeman William Saroyan, high-flying apostle of man's humanity to man, was on the upswing again: after thinking it over for three days, his wife had decided to tack a Saroyan ending on to the whole episode, dropped her divorce suit.

John Barrymore Jr., 16, continued on his way to Los Angeles after a slight delay at La Guardia Airport. Stepfather Dr. John Vruwink, in the dark himself, had asked police to find out whither John was bound. Police picked him out by the profile.

Major General Vasily Stalin, 28, a backward son when a schoolboy, demonstrated last week that he has learned to recite perfectly: "Every participant in the coming aviation parade [which was later rained out and postponed a week] will demonstrate his love and gratitude to the creator and organizer of all victories and successes of the Soviet people, the best friend of Soviet aviators, the wise, brilliant commander and generalissimo of the Soviet Union, Joseph V. Stalin."

Mrs. Casey Jones, relict of the famed engineer, sharp-eyed and spry at "over 80," rode up from Jackson, Tenn. to Chicago for a railroad fair, reminisced about Casey: "Laughing brown eyes that had the imp in them . . . took care of his engine like some people pamper a dog." On the fair: "Some doin's. Only wish Casey could be here. But I don't know what he'd think of these new diesels and the 'astra domes' and stuff."