Monday, Aug. 31, 1936
"Names make news." Last week these names made these news: In Northampton, Mass. "The Beeches," home of Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, has been for sale since last winter. Last week it was revealed that Mrs. Coolidge. now touring in Denmark, had purchased a large lot opposite the Northampton home of her good friend & fellow tourist, Mrs. Florence B. Adams, with whom she has been living.
Motoring near his country home in Sotiero, Sweden, Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf spied a peasant's house ablaze, pulled up, led volunteer firemen in & out of the flames, recovered most of the house hold goods.
In a Manhattan court, it was revealed that pale, limping, hemophilic Alfonso Pio Cristino Eduardo Francisco Guillermo Carlos Enrique Eugenio Fernando Antonio Venancio, the Count of Covadonga, 29, eldest son of deposed Alfonso XIII of Spain, technical adviser and salesman with Manhattan's defunct British Motors, Ltd., had pledged part of his share of the Span ish crown jewels as security against loans of "considerable sums."
Job-seeking in Denver was Bryan Untiedt, 18, whom Herbert Hoover in vited to the White House as the boy hero who saved the lives of 16 schoolmates marooned in a bus during a Colorado blizzard five years ago (TIME, April 6 & 13, 1931).
From a small tug at Pequaming, Mich., stepped vacationing Henry Ford. Straightway he marched to a local dancing school, reeled & minueted with happy moppets for half an hour. For all Pequaming boys & girls he ordered ice cream & cake, chugged off again in the tug.
With a man she had nursed through a long illness at Dedinje, Yugoslavia, eloped pretty Nun Manuela Mary Adamic, 25, sister of Author Louis Adamic (The Native's Return, Dynamite). Observed Author Adamic in Manhattan : "A man who could make her escape after five years must have strength."
Celebrated slick-paper Fictionists Patterson McNutt, Grover Jones, Gene Fowler, Nunnally Johnson wrote a story, signed it "Don Marquis," sold it to the 'Saturday Evening Post, to Paramount Pictures. To Author Donald Robert Perry ("Don") Marquis, (The Old Soak), ill in bed, went the two checks as a present.
Breaking her collarbone when her mount fell at a Long Island horse show, Mrs. M. Robert Guggenheim, able horsewoman, was rushed to a hospital. Hour later she was back again with her arm in a steel splint, remarked: "It would be silly to miss the rest of the show."
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