Monday, Oct. 10, 1932
"Names make news." Last week these names made this news:
William Randolph Hearst, 69. took a room in Cleveland Clinic Hospital (fifth floor) with great secrecy, had a "minor operation'' performed by Dr. George Washington Crile.
Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, Marquess of Douglas & Clydesdale, able boxer, was chosen leader of a British expedition to attempt an airplane flight over world's-highest Mt. Everest (29.141 ft.) this month.
Two Amherst graduates attending a radio conference at Madrid held an Amherst dinner, sent a long cable to Amherst's
Calvin Coolidge asking for a message, explaining his reply would cost nothing. His reply (full text): "Greetings." Alain Gerbault, oldtime French tennis star who three years ago completed a solitary trip around the world in a 35-foot sailboat, left Marseilles alone in his new sailboat Alain Gerbault. Friends said he was bound for Polynesia. The city of Nizhni-Novgorod, chief navigation centre on the Volga River. famed for its annual fair, was renamed Maxim Gorki in honor of "Soviet Russia's foremost man of letters." whose birthplace it is. Albert Whiting Fox. Washington attorney, sued Evalyn Walsh McLean for legal fees of $33,002.21. His services since April: prosecuted the action which led to the resignation of her husband. Edward Beale McLean, as publisher of the Washington Post; represented her in a maintenance suit against him: obtained injunctions against his suing for divorce in Mexico and Latvia; helped prosecute Gaston Bullock Means for swindling her out of $104,000 with a promise to restore the Lindbergh child.
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