April 3, 1941: Tom Treanor, who died covering World War II for The Times, writes about Leland Stowe, a reporter for the Chicago Daily News who was visiting Los Angeles. Stowe and Treanor had crossed paths several times in Europe, the last being the time Stowe hitched a ride with a Christian Science Monitor reporter who had a peculiar obsession with owls.  

RKO reports that "Citizen Kane," Hollywood's most controversial film, will be released. THIS MEANS that Orson Welles, who holds a steel-bound contract for a percentage of profits and who threatened a terrific damage suit if the film was shelved, has won his battle and is enthroned as the industry's No. 1 "No" man, Jimmie Fidler says.

April 1, 1941: Leroy Keane lives in a 7 by 10 room at 415 Crocker, but has a library of several hundred books, many of them first editions. He acquires them from the drivers of rubbish wagons, buying them sight unseen — sometimes getting an entire stack for 15 cents, Lee Shippey says.

Those makeup infection scars on Merle Oberon's face seem permanent, Jimmie Fidler says.

March 31, 1941: Everybody has ideas about making movies – even the window washers, Lee Shippey says.

EVER SINCE RETURNING from Europe I have been pestered by one question to which I could give no satisfactory answer. The question is "how are the Jews being treated in such and such a country?" My answers were always vague and confused. I could never make people understand the situation is so complicated that you can't give an answer, Tom Treanor says. 

PALM SPRINGS AT A GLANCE: Fat gals, lean gals, short gals, tall gals – all wearing shorts, a "bra" and a nonchalant air, Jimmie Fidler says.