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Show BP Walter Winchell I Man About Totvn: One of our flghtlngest Generals was divorced quietly while serving abroad . . . Mrs. F.D.R. probably will tour the world . . . It'i another son for the Douglas ("Wrong Way") Corrigans in Texas . . . Sunny Ainsworth (Mrs. No. 7) cost $75,000, which is about par for the course . . . Donald Nelson's next stop will be England . . . Ambassador Stand-ley Stand-ley told chums that he "couldn't stand another Russian Winter I" . . . The State Department's next victim, insiders insist, will be ex-Gov. Leh-man Leh-man . . . Gen. MacArthur told some of his staff: "I would rather be the man who marched into Tokyo than be a defeated candidate!" v B. Baruch's "mysterious disappearance" disap-pearance" from the Capital worried his friends. The reason he left suddenly: sud-denly: Nurse Higgins, who takes care of him, was stricken and he rushed her to a New York hospital . . . Prosecutor O. John Rogge of the Dept. of Justice (he knocked out the Huey Long machine) will soon throw his Sunday punch at Berlin. The story will amaze the nation. Averell Harriman's chief aide, Philip Reed, delivered a speech at a private luncheon the other day-hosted day-hosted by Jesse Jones in Washington . . . Mr. Reed explained why the U. S. "had to produce more than ever!" . . . Because, he said, Britain Brit-ain has too large an army to produce pro-duce arms. If we do not produce more England "will have to reduce her armed forces!" . . . Grover Loenrag, the plane genius, says a plane that hasn't 25 to 40 "improvements" "improve-ments" per month is obsolete . . . Fritz Kuhn's ex-favorite lawyer was Just appointed to an important committee com-mittee of the N. Y. Bar Ass'n. Mrs. Woodrow Wilson will give the coin she gets from Zanuck (for the film on Wilson's life) to various war charities . . . Several French politicals, polit-icals, who escaped to the U. S., are living in Washington and New York with their mistresses, who were admitted ad-mitted via courtesy diplomatic pass-Dorts. Paul Robeson, despite the erratum, erra-tum, sings at camps and naval bases for the men. It was said he couldn't get official permission. Not so . . . The Army is sending fan mail to desk men asking them to state Why they shouldn't be replaced by a WAC ... A diplomatic Incident is fester-ing fester-ing because the daughter of a Mex- j lean consul was refused service In j an Austin, Texas, spot I The newsprint shortage Is this acute: One gazette which requested 990 tons got 19 . . . F.D.R. Jr. had another miraculous escape. Only officer saved In a recent bombing, which killed six officers out of the ship's seven . . . Labor Is getting support in high places In the fight to resist drafting of labor . . . Our gov't tipped Moscow that Hitler would invade Russia six months before. be-fore. Missing the date by one week . . . Gen. Marshall's reappointment was deserved. At 20,000 ft over the Atlantic, he effected one of the greatest great-est orders in military history. Newsweek's HartzeU Spence lost his editorship with Yank because of a blast at the American Legion. Sgt. J. McCarthy replaces . . . "The I Student Prince" ads quote drama critic Burton Rascoe as follows: "I ! saw "The Student Prince again, and for my money, it is the most completely com-pletely satisfying of the various operetta op-eretta revivals" . . . Since when are you paying, Bub? Sights You Don't See From a Sight-Seeing Bus: The place downtown down-town that tattoos your Social Security Secur-ity number on your chest or arms The real American Indian, long braids, blue trousers, red silk shirt-carrying a cane-on 42nd j Street near 5th .. . The new dating j spot for uniformed lads and their ; gals-Father DufTy's statue on ' Roadway near 47th ... The quotes ;from Nazi leaders in Radio City's This Is the Enemy" exhibit So fantastic they seem made up, but ! are real ... The wolves who loiter . around the 5th Awenue Library lions , waiting for the lambs ... The Greenwich Green-wich Village cafeteria with tables reserved for Village eccentrics-so - that others may enjoy the nightly show they put on ... The lovely trees in Washington Square-which once served as gallows. The FBI i, working on the case of Herbert Moy, born in New York, who now broadcasts for the Japs In Shanghai. He left here in 1932 . . . Patnca Lockridge. popular Girl hpJ nVrT E'mer Davis' wi shelve Woman s Home Companion ... Almost Al-most 40 per cent of the men who a e shot down are saved by your nylon hoSlery parachutes, girls . . . ,nnef circ'"s want to discuss the President (without eavesdrop Setting hep) they call him |