Monday, Dec. 30, 1929

"Names make news." Last week the following names made the following news:

Sherwood Anderson, grizzled author (Winesburg, Ohio; Dark Laughter) went back to Chicago after an absence of eight years to look at the setting for his new book, Beyond Desire.

James A. ("Bud") Stillman Jr., who married Backwoods Girl Lena Wilson at his mother's famed camp at Grande Anse, Que. (TIME, Aug. 8, 1927), is studying medicine at Harvard Medical School. Last week his wife told the press this story: ''Bud rescued a poor crippled boy who was being tormented by a crowd of other boys. He took an interest in the boy and tried to rehabilitate him by psychoanalysis. He was half starved. Bud fed him and was kind to him. At first he was suspicious, for nobody ever had been kind to him really. But finally he was won over.

"Bud routed his inferiority complex. That's all he really needed--faith in himself. Now he has even discarded his crutches. Bud is going to send him to medical school."

Jesse Livermore, Wall Street operator, famed Bear, having received threats against his life following the stockmarket crash, made known that he had hired an armed bodyguard.

William Adams Delano, famed U. S. architect (Delano & Aldrich), speaking before the Architecture Club of London, advised English architects against erecting skyscrapers. Said he: "Americans are gradually being crushed by these monsters. . . . Unless you are ready to swallow our civilization whole, it would seem a mistake to copy any part of it."

Mayor James John ("Jimmy") Walker of New York proclaimed a technical "emergency" in the matter of his wages, had his Board of Estimate raise him from $25,000 to $40,000 per annum, thus becoming the highest-paid public official in the land excepting the U. S. President ($75,000). Defending the idea, said he: "I don't need the money. If it became a sporting proposition, I'd bet on the turn of a coin the amount of the raise."

His Highness Maharaja Raj Rajeshwar Sawai Shri Yeshwant Rao Holkar Bahadur left Christ Church College, Oxford, to assume the throne of Indore, having reached his majority. His father abdicated in 1926. He will be enthroned early next month, will control 9,519 square miles.

Bishop James Cannon Jr., of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, politician, prohibitor, stock speculator, lent moral but not financial support to his son Richard M. Cannon, on trial at Montrose, Calif., for failing to pay his teachers and for maintaining unsanitary conditions at his school ("Cannon Military Academy"). Enraged at being newsphoto-graphed outside the courthouse. Bishop Cannon grappled with cameramen, crying, "What right have you to take my picture?"

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