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In the old Chancellery in Berlin, President Paul von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg, 85, fell down a dark staircase, suffered painful bruises.

To Germany's monarchist "League of the Upright," meeting in Berlin to urge his recall to the throne. Wilhelm Hohenzollern sent the following words of Jesus Christ: "Without me ye can do nothing."

"Hoover v. Roosevelt," intoned the clerk of a Chicago police court, whereupon Ike Hoover,* special agent for the Baltimore & Ohio R. R., stepped forward, accused one Metts Roosevelt, Negro, of stealing ice in the yards. Said Metts Roosevelt, after receiving a fine of $10 & costs, "I'm going to vote for Hoover-- and I don't mean Ike Hoover, neither."

The Rockefeller theory of charity was thus explained by John Davison Rockefeller Jr. in Forbes Magazine: "It is sometimes complained that we do not give proper consideration to small . . . applications. . . . Our conception has been that we should devote our funds to relatively few, carefully considered large projects. . . . Take the case of the Rockefeller Institute [for Medical Research] After the idea of it was conceived ... we said to my father, 'Here's a great gamble. You may plant one million or five millions and get no crop in the form of medical discovery. The average man cannot afford to put in several million dollars without knowing definitely that there will be tangible results. You can.'

"These smaller things are just as vital. . . . But that field can be filled by others."

In Toledo Roger Bresnahan, oldtime (1902-15) National League baseballer, onetime owner of the Toledo "Mud Hens," rated by John McGraw as all-time greatest major league catcher, took a $100-a-month position as guard at Toledo's workhouse.

Golfer Robert Tyre ("Bobby") Jones Jr., vice president and part owner of Atlanta Baseball & Amusement Corp. ("Crackers" baseball club) was appointed its temporary receiver. The club has lost money for the past three seasons, finishing successively fourth, sixth, seventh in Southern Association pennant races.

In Tampa, Golfer Gene Sarazen filed two $40,000 damage suits in an effort to collect for three years' services as professional at the Jasmin Point Golf Club, New-Port Richey.

Mary Lewis, beauteous Arkansas soprano who went from the Follies to Metropolitan Opera to retirement, tried a comeback during the introduction of celebrity-guests at the opening of the supper club in Manhattan's Ritz-Carlton Hotel. In a pause between phrases of "Carry Me Back to Old Virginia," a coin clattered at her feet, flipped by a sot. Mary Lewis stooped, picked up the coin, finished her song amid tremendous applause.

In Detroit Contralto Ernestine Schumann-Heink, 71, proudly making her living on a "four-a-day" vaudeville circuit, told how she answered New York women who spoke pityingly of her "comedown." "I said, 'You! You have rich husbands. And your husbands are jumping out of ten-story windows these days. That is a comedown, hah?' "

In Cleveland, recuperating from his diverticulum operation (TIME, Oct. 10) William Randolph Hearst gave newshawks an interview. Excerpt: "The surgeons say the operation was not important,* but whenever folks begin plowing around in my interior, the situation becomes important as far as I am concerned. Dr. [George Washington] Crile says he has been doing operations like mine for years and has never had a fatality. Of course, I do not want to spoil such a good record and am particularly pleased to say I did not."

Film Actress Marion Davies was discovered in Cleveland. Said she : "Why am I here? Simply because my favorite dressmaker is now employed in Cleveland."

*Not to be confused with Chief Usher Irvin Hood ("Ike") Hoover, longtime (since 1891) White House employe.

*Long inconvenienced, though not debilitated, by a diverticulum (pouch) in his esophagus, Mr. Hearst saw TIME's report of modern surgery's success with the phenomenon (TIME, March 21), despatched his Manhattan medical reporter to learn TIME's sources, finally proceeded to the Crile Clinic, had his pouch sewed shut.

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