Monday, Dec. 07, 1936
"Names make news." Last week these names made this news:
At the Harvard Stadium three weeks ago Charles Francis Adams, onetime Secretary of the Navy and Harvard Alumnus, wore a necktie striped with the Navy's blue & gold, watched Navy beat Harvard 20-to-13. Thinking the necktie a good omen, he sent it airmail to Rear Admiral Emory Scott Land, Chief of the Bureau of Construction & Repair, who wore it to the Army-Navy game, saw the midshipmen beat the Army 7-to-0 (see p. 40).
Recuperated from a five-month illness during which he underwent three operations for an intestinal ailment, pale Democratic Boss Thomas J. ("Tom") Fendergast trudged out of Kansas City's Menorah Hospital 65 Ib. lighter than when he entered. Present weight: 175 Ib.
Upped to the presidency of the Society for the Prevention of Calling Sleeping Car Porters "George" was Georgia's Senator
Walter Franklin George, succeeding New Hampshire's onetime Senator George Higgins Moses. Conceived in 1916 as a joke by Chicago Lumberman-Banker George William Dulany Jr., the Society has accumulated 30,000 members whose names include George, has cost its founder $6,000. Fellow-officers of Georgia's George are Vice President George Arliss, Poet Laureate George Ade, Lyricist George M. Cohan, Steward King George II of Greece, Sergeant at Arms George Herman ("Babe") Ruth, Patron Saints George Washington & George Dewey.
Proclaimed President George at Vienna, Ga. : "Porters should be called by some official title, perhaps 'Porter' or, why not call them bv their own names?" Introduced to New York's vacationing Governor Herbert Henry Lehman at Palm Springs, Calif., Cinemactress Shirley Temple, 7, played Ping-Pong and shuffleboard with him, became engrossed in pro longed conversation, afterwards reported: "We were talking politics." Irked since he first spotted the Harvard University seal displayed on the Rhode Island State House library ceiling among the seals of 16 renowned printers, Gover nor Theodore Francis ("Teddy") Green, Brown & Harvard Law School graduate, had the Harvard seal removed, substituted the seal of William Caxton, first English printer.
Off to a vacation in Monticello, Fla. went Governor Alf Landon of Kansas. "Are you going to catch any fish?" asked a newshawk. Replied the Governor: "I've got a lot more chance than I had in the last campaign." Bedded in a Denver hospital, Oregon's eloquent Senator Frederick ("Three Long Years") Steiwer lamented the loss of "a good audience" of Senate Republicans to listen to him tell about his gall stone operation. Moaned he: "Imagine starting out, 'Now, when I had my operation,' and having only 15 or 20 around to hear!" Golfing and fishing at Miami, Fla. were onetime Democratic Presidential Nominee James Middleton Cox, Massachusetts' Democratic Governor James Michael Curley, Mississippi's Democratic Senator Pat Harrison, Michigan's Democratic Governor-Elect Frank Murphy, Democratic Treasurer of the U. S. William Alexander Julian, Democratic White House Secretaries Stephen Early & Marvin Mclntyre, Democratic Press-agent Charles Michelson and Republican also-ran Colonel William Franklin ("Frank") Knox.
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