Monday, Nov. 16, 1936
PEOPLE
"Names make news." Last week these names made this news:
After their campaign labors, the following politicians made or planned the following moves: Pennsylvania's Governor George Howard Earle, to Delray. Fla. for deep-sea fishing. New York's Governor Herbert Henry Lehman, to Williamstown, Mass, to watch his son Peter and the Williams freshman football team lose 12-to-0 to the Wesleyan freshmen. Governor Lehman's defeated rival, William Francis Bleakley, back to his law practice at Yonkers, N. Y. Michigan's Governor-elect Frank Murphy, a flight to the Philippines. Massachusetts' Senator-elect Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., to Bermuda. Democratic Boss James Aloysius Farley, to Ireland. National Republican Chairman John Daniel Miller Hamilton, to Manhattan, to worry about an estimated $1,300,000 party deficit. Vice President John Nance Garner, in Uvalde, Tex., stayed put, as did Senator William Edgar Borah, in Boise, Idaho, after narrowly escaping pneumonia. Governor Alf Landon, duckhunting. New Jersey's Senator-elect William Henry Smathers, hunting in Berwick, Pa., barely missed being shot by his secretary. Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr., to Sea Island Beach, Ga. Secretary of State Cordell Hull, to Buenos Aires for the Pan-American Conference. Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, a speaking tour of twelve lectures in 16 days. Said she: "I plan to try to plan my time better so as to have a more peaceful time."
Madam Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins revealed that her private elevator in the new Labor Department Building has been used only once. Relief Administrator Harry Lloyd Hopkins entered it last year by mistake, was unable to get out, had to be extricated.
Absent since Oct. 13 from Supreme Court deliberations, Associate Justice Harlan Fiske Stone was reported by his wife "greatly improved" from an "attack of bacillary dysentery of the Flexner type."
Convicted a year ago of conspiring to sell a West Point appointment for $1,000, hunted in the District of Columbia, Indiana and California after they failed to appear in Washington, D. C. to start serving jail terms of four months to a year, California's onetime Representative John Henry Hoeppel ("Colonel Hoopla") and his son Charles Jerome were nabbed by Federal detectives in Richmond, Va. Last summer Congressman Hoeppel lost his district's Democratic renomination.
Furniture, rugs and art of Mrs. Samuel Insull and the late Mrs. Samuel Insull Jr., wife and daughter-in-law of Chicago's onetime utility pope, were auctioned in a four-day sale in Manhattan for $120,163.
To his duties in Ottawa, from London where he "discussed defense matters from a world angle," returned Canada's Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King.
The weekly Presbyterian Banner announced that Toronto's Victoria College awarded an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree Oct. 10 to "Lord Tweed S. Muir, Governor-General of Canada." Few days after said John Buchan (Lord Tweedsmuir) upon receiving an honorary Doctor of Laws from Queen's University at Kingston, Ont.: "We are living in a confused and difficult world. . . ."
At his Brussels palace, King Leopold III of the Belgians entertained at dinner 64 coal miners and their families as a tribute to the men's heroism during a Bouverie mine disaster last month.
Wilhelm Hohenzollern, 77, published in Berlin a richly-illustrated, 163-page book entitled Studien zur Gorgo ("Studies of the Gorgon"). The exiled Kaiser began Gorgon research in 1911 after visiting the ancient Doric temple on the island of Corfu said to have been built in honor of the three Greek Gorgons (Stheno, Euryale, Medusa), mythological snaky-haired sisters whose terrifying looks turned beholders into stone.
Five foot five, weight 162 ib., Italian-born Sophomore Felix Caracciolo won the regular right guard position on Yale's football team. Ten years in the U. S., Sophomore Caracciolo, 20, waits on training table, sells beer and cigarets over a New Haven lunch counter to pay his way through college.
Fred Perry of England, world's No. 1 amateur tennist, revealed that, as a professional, he would next month play topflight Professional Ellsworth Vines in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden.
While Tennist Helen Hull Jacobs embarked for London where she will again be the guest of U. S. Ambassador & Mrs. Robert Worth Bingham, in Palo Alto, Calif. Mrs. Eula Hull Jacobs denied that her daughter would marry the Embassy's First Secretary Herschel V. Johnson, revealed that Helen was beginning a novel "not about tennis."
Scouring the Delaware River in his speedboat, Outfielder Leon Allen ("Goose") Goslin of the Detroit Tigers rescued two men adrift twelve hours, towed their stalled craft twelve miles to Salem, N. J.
U. S. Patent No. 2,042,987 was issued to Inventor John Hays Hammond Jr. for a radio-controlled torpedo which can reverse its course if it misses and steer for its target again. Outlined in his prospectus was a method for dispatching entire fleets of torpedoes in formation, which could be speeded or slowed as they made for their targets.
Joining one of Anna Eleanor Roosevelt's White House press conferences, U. S.-born Mme Jean Adrien Antoine Jules Jusserand, stately wife of the longtime (1902-24) French Ambassador to the U. S., spun tales of oldtime Washington, likened her native land to "a quiet garden," war, scared Europe to "a crowded omnibus where any passenger can make trouble."
When Peggy Upton Archer Hopkins Joyce Morner got into a bed in London's Cardiff Hotel, she quickly jumped out. The sheets were strewn with sand.
For the first time since he established residence in England, Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh piloted an airplane of his own, a new black & orange 200-h.p. touring monoplane which he tested at Reading Airdrome. Built secretly to specifications prepared by himself and Designer Frederick George Miles, the ship is equipped for blind flying, fitted with a transparent, sliding roof, tandem seats convertible into bunks.
For a reported $100,000, onetime Cinemactor John Leslie ("Jackie") Coogan, 22, bought a 10-acre San Fernando (Calif.) Valley estate; including six acres of walnuts, a 12-room farmhouse, caretaker's cottage, stables, kennels, chicken and turkey-raising equipment, $10,000 electric train, once the property of Cinema Director Lloyd Bacon.
In all municipal trolley cars and buses in Detroit were posted bronze-colored placards simply inscribed: "In Memory of Senator James Couzens, 1872-1936, Founder of Department of Street Railways."
For five hours, firemen, deputy sheriffs and attendants of the Norwalk (Calif.) Insane Asylum tried in vain to dislodge Inmate Emma Neuman from her perilous perch atop a 75-ft-water tower, until buxom Mrs. Carla George de Vries, famed for kissing Adolf Hitler on the mouth at last summer's Olympiad (TIME, Aug. 31), arrived on the scene, spoke German to Inmate Neuman, coaxed her down.
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