Monday, Jun. 27, 1938
"Names make news." Last week these names made this news:
The cabin of her Vultee bomber flower-filled by proud Turks, Turkey's "Flying Amazon," 24-year-old Pilot-Major Sabiha Goekeen (adopted daughter of President Kamal Atatuerk hopped off on a good-will flight to Athens, Belgrade, Bucharest.
Convict Richard Whitney, onetime (1910) member of Harvard's varsity crew, onetime (1930-35) President of the New York Stock Exchange, in a game at Sing Sing, played first base for the prison's "school team," batted .667 in three times at bat, made no errors, stood a chance of promotion to the prison varsity.
Stated to graduate from Princeton University, where he majored in politics, Fumitaka Konoye, son of Japan's Premier, failed to get his degree, thought that his father ''might be quite angry" when he returned to Japan without it.
The Duke & Duchess of Windsor celebrated the Duchess' 42nd birthday off the Riviera aboard the yacht Frixos, lent them for the occasion by their friend "Nicky" Zographos, head of the Greek gambling syndicate in Monte Carlo, day after moving into their newly redecorated Chateau de la Croee. Four days later they celebrated the Duke's 44th birthday at home.
Press reports that 62 servants had been dismissed from Whitemarsh Hall, mogul-mansion (272 rooms) of the late, drum-beating Philadelphia financier, Edward T. Stotesbury, brought a disdainful disclaimer from stately Mrs. Stotesbury: Said she: "I personally have not discharged any one, nor do I intend to. The responsibility is in the hands of my co-executors."
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