Monday, Feb. 08, 1937
"Names make news." Last week these names made this news:
Congregating at the Martyrs Memorial on the 288th anniversary of Charles I's beheading, Jacobite Oxford students proclaimed former Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria "King of England, Scotland & Ireland."
After several weeks' recuperation at Sea Island Beach, Ga., Associate Justice
Harlan Fiske Stone returned to Supreme Court work which he left when stricken four months ago with dysentery.
Nobel Prize-winning Playwright Eugene O'Neill sold "Casa Genotta," his Spanish-type house at Sea Island Beach, Ga., to retired Shirtmaker George Alfred Cluett of Williamstown, Mass.
Limping into a Mineola, N. Y. courtroom, plump, deaf Gertrude Ederle, celebrated English Channel swimmer (1926), opened suit for $50,000 damages against the Justine Apartments, where she claims she slipped on a loose stair tile in 1933, suffering a permanent spinal injury which has kept her invalid ever since.
Investigating railroading for a Bennington (Vt.) college report, Sophomore Mary Harriman, daughter of Union Pacific Railroad's Board Chairman William Averell Harriman, toured U. P.'s Omaha engine shops for three days, served as a stewardess on a U. P. day-coach to Cheyenne.
At Lympne, England Colonel & Mrs. Charles Augustus Lindbergh zoomed away in their new orange & black monoplane Miles Hawk, turned up few hours later in Rome.
Yachtsman Harold Stirling Vanderbilt announced that Ranger will be the name of the sloop now being built at the Bath (Me.) Iron Works, with which he hopes to defend the America's Cup this summer. Ranger is the namesake of the first U. S. man-of-war to hoist the new national flag and the first to receive an official salute from a foreign nation.
Stricken at his home in Winnfield, La. lay Huey Pierce Long Sr., 85, father of Louisiana's late Senator, with his son Lieutenant Governor Earl K. Long at the bedside.
To Stanford University Cinemactor Robert Taylor (Pomona 1933) donated $250 for study of the psychology of the theatre.
For attempting to blackmail Cinemactor Clark Gable, the Los Angeles Federal grand jury indicted dumpy Mrs. Violet Wells Norton, 47, of Winnipeg, who claimed that he is the father of 13-year-old Gwendolyn, one of her four illegitimate children.
Traveling to Chicago, Surrealist Salvador Dali telegraphed ahead to a friend to notify the press he was coming. Upon arrival he went quickly to the Art Institute, had himself photographed beside one of his paintings while Mrs. Dali gurgled: "Isn't it awful? He has to submit to this everywhere!"
Spotted in Chicago boarding a train for Arizona, Illinois' old onetime Governor Frank Orren Lowden cheerfully ex plained that inasmuch as his dairy farm near Rockford was submerged by water and ice, he had nothing to do but travel.
Boxer Max Baer lost 100 suits of clothes when his home at Sacramento, Calif, was razed by a $40,000 fire believed to have been set by an incendiary.
Accompanied by her three-year-old son Mannfried, Anna Hauptmann appeared before the Kings County (N. Y.) grand jury to testify secretly about the actions of New Jersey Detective Ellis H. Parker and his son, now under indictment for the kidnapping of Paul H. Wendel, whose last-minute "confession" delayed Bruno Richard Hauptmann's execution.
Lately cited for contempt of court for failing to pay his wife back alimony, Edward J. Reilly, chief defense lawyer for Bruno Richard Hauptmann in the Lindbergh kidnapping case, was committed to the Brooklyn State Hospital for the Insane on petition of his mother.
For $8,800 Peggy Upton Archer Hopkins Joyce Morner sold Watchdog, Ton-del, 5562 and Rathfriland, four horses given her by her intended fifth husband, London Astrophysicist Vivian Jackson, killed in a sleighing accident last month (TIME, Jan. 11). Her half-share in Russett she sold for $288 to Mrs. Jackson, who had named her co-respondent in a divorce suit.
In San Francisco Elaine Barrie Barrymore, currently suing for divorce, made her stage debut in The Return of Hannibal. At the same time her mother, Mrs. Louis Jacobs, revealed that the wedding ring Actor John Barrymore had given Elaine was a circlet woven from tiny strands of gold: "Flexible--like Elaine's marriage."
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