Bertrand Russell dislikes football, titles, and bridge, but is fond of hiking, Chinese people, detective stories, Harvard, and America's younger generation.

This information was divulged at an hour-long press conference yesterday morning when the British Lord, who doesn't use his title "because it's a sort of anonymity," traded wise cracks and discussed logical positivism with 15 reporters.

The series of 12 public lectures which Russell will give here on 'An Inquiry into Meaning and Truth" based on a book which he has just completed and which will be published in January. He is not working on a book at present.

"I usually allow myself a month or two between books," he added.

Turning to the war, Russell said, "If it lasts long enough, America is sure to get dragged in on one thing or another--the Germans sooner or later are bound to do something you can't stand. Once Hitler begins to doubt his star, he will get silly, just as Napoleon did."

"Hitler," the co-author of "Principia Mathematica" added, "is a foreign body, as if Europe had swallowed a stone."