Monday, Feb. 11, 1935

"Names make news." Last week these names made this news:

From a refrigerated crypt in Pasadena, Calif., undertakers removed the frozen body of William Wrigley Jr., found it unchanged in appearance since they put it there three years ago. An ambulance sped it to the S. S. Catalina which bore it out to Santa Catalina Island. Near the town of Avalon an obelisk-topped mausoleum has been two years building. There William Wrigley Jr. was finally buried.

Walking along Washington's 24th Street at dusk, Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau came to a steep, icy hill. At the top of the hill stood his young daughter Joan with a long bobsled. Mr. Morgenthau threw himself flat on the sled. Joan climbed on his back. Down the hill they sped, to stop in front of the Czechoslovakia!! Legation. Secretary Morgenthau & daughter trudged up the hill, zipped down again, coasted until dinner time.

"Early next spring, Mrs. Grace Coolidge will say farewell to her native New England to become the bride of Calvin Coolidge's onetime White House secretary, Everett Sanders."--New York Daily News. Said Son John Coolidge: "It's a phoney. . . . There won't be any such marriage. . . "

Hugh Samuel Johnson, author of Williams of West Point, Williams on Service, The Blue Eagle from Egg to Earth, was found in Washington writing A Barnyard History of the United States. The book will be built around the careers, motives and achievements of great U. S. characters.

Bound for Florida, Mrs, Alfred Emanuel Smith was standing in a compartment on the Seaboard Air Liner Orange Blossom Special, when the train rounded a curve near Richmond, lurched, threw her heavily against a window ledge. Her husband summoned a doctor who treated her hastily, told her she could go on. Twenty-four hours later, suffering "from a broken arm and nervous shock. Mrs. Smith bedded herself in a West Palm Beach hospital, stayed there four days.

Because she was six years old, Jeanne Vizetelly Cochrane had a birthday party at her home in The Bronx, N. Y. Because she is the granddaughter and favorite prodigy of famed old Lexicographer Frank Horace Vizetelly, editor of the Standard Dictionary, all her friends and relatives gathered for news of her linguistic prowess. At the age of 18 months Jeanne had mastered 300 words. When she was 4. her grandfather placed her vocabulary at 5,800, listed the words to prove it. Proudly, last week, Grandfather Vizetelly reported: "Jeanne has learned 2,000 words this year. She will continue at this rate until she is 12 years old. Then there will be a slump."

Soprano Mary Garden sang four songs to the inmates of Sing Sing Prison.

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