People: Jun. 16, 1930

“Names make news.” Last week the following names made the following news:

In Brooklyn, Dougherty was not a name that made news until last week’s news made Dougherty a name to conjure with in Brooklyn.* Edward P. Dougherty, 19, shiny-haired, tight-collared, $20-per-week clerk in a broker’s office, paid $1 for a ticket in the Canadian Army & Navy Veterans’ Sweepstakes on the Epsom Derby. The ticket drew Blenheim, won $149,262. Edward P. Dougherty told the news to his father, Daniel, an apartment house doorman, and his brother Daniel Jr., another broker’s clerk. Instantly, in their four-room apartment, they fell to arguing.

“I had a half-interest in that ticket,” said Daniel Jr.

“I earned the money in America,” said Daniel Sr., “and I’ll spend it in America. I’ve worked my hands to the bone for the boys, and when I die I’ll leave my money to them. . . . Yes, I told Ed to buy the ticket for me. He was a dollar short in his rent that week, so that made it even. . . . I’ve played the horses all my life, and now I’ve beaten them at last. . . . Maybe I’ll go to Ireland, I don’t know….”

After a night of bickering, Edward denied his father’s claim to the whole fortune, his brother’s to half of it, insisted it all belonged to him, but generously consented to divide it in equal thirds. Daniel Sr. had his shoes shined, paid a $10 luncheon check in a good restaurant, said such prices were robbery. He and his two sons, accompanied by Edward’s employer and a representative of the sweepstake syndicate, left for Quebec to collect the money.

Meanwhile in a Brooklyn basement another Dougherty raised her voice. She said she married Daniel Dougherty Sr. in 1921, that he had deserted her. “I have just two things to say. One is that I’ll sue for support if he gets that money. The other is a warning to the boys: if he gets his hands on it it will be gone in a year … !”

In Quebec, Son Edward Dougherty eluded his brother and father at their hotel, scurried in bed-slippers to the sweepstake office, collected the money, popped it into a bank. Cried Father Dougherty: “Oh, the jackanapes! The scoundrel! My own son! Think of it!”

When he heard of Mrs. Dougherty’s threat, Father Dougherty was reconciled to letting his son keep the money and support him. Son Edward turned the money over to his employer (De Coppett & Doremus) for investment.

Gloomed Hearst Colyumist Arthur Brisbane: “A miracle MIGHT happen, the winner of the $149,000 MIGHT invest the money wisely, take care of it, enjoy prosperity. . .”. The general rule is, ‘Once a gambler, always a gambler,’ until the money gives out. . . .”*

Nels J. Benson, houseman at Ambassador Charles Gates Dawes’ Evanston, Ill. home, said he had received a letter from his employer in London directing him to make an appointment at the Ambassador’s favorite local barber shop. Said Houseman Benson to the barber: “You’d better get all your bottles filled up. From the way he writes, I think he’ll take the works.”

Rufus Cutler Dawes, brother of U. S. Ambassador Charles Gates Dawes, was awakened by smoke from a small fire in his Evanston, Ill. home. With the help of servants he carried out the family silver, extinguished the blaze.

Mrs. Emma Hammerstein, 47, widow of the late impresario Oscar Hammerstein, a woman once presented at four European regal courts, was found guilty of vagabondage in a Manhattan police court. A detective, whose testimony was substantiated by three patrolmen, said that she had accepted $30 from him in a Manhattan hotel. Following a sentence of one day in jail, her inimical stepson Producer Arthur Hammerstein offered her $50 to be “decent” and clubwomen began raising a fund to combat the “double standard” in prostitution cases.

Arthur Brisbane, No. 1 Hearstman, last week met Henry Ford in Ginsburg & Levy’s antique shop on Madison Ave., Manhattan. Mr. Brisbane told Mr. Ford he ought to advertise his cars in the American Weekly (Hearst Sunday Supplement). Said Mr. Ford, “I guess you’re right” and pulling a knife from his right trouser pocket, slipped it into his fob pocket. “That’s how I make myself remember things,” he said.

Learning that 250 Canadian authors would convene in Montreal this month, Author Rudyard Kipling, sailing from Montreal to England, expressed surprise that there were so many of them. Said he: “Wish them good luck for me. It’s an awful trade. I mean it!”

Cornelius McGillicuddy Jr., son of Manager “Connie Mack” of the Philadelphia American League baseball team (“Athletics”), was elected captain of next year’s baseball nine at Germantown Academy. Although ill at the beginning of this season, he appeared in two games as relief pitcher, won both.

A small bomb intended for the Baroness Edouard de Rothschild exploded in the Paris Central Postoffice, injured no one.

*Brooklyn’s most famed Dougherty uses his first two names only, Walter Hampden. Actor Hampden’s Brooklyn-born brother Paul, able artist, long since moved to Manhattan.

*One year from now TIME will report the financial status of this Dougherty family. Arthur Court of Indianapolis, onetime janitor, who won $84,750 in the English Derby last year, last week had “only a few thousand” left. His investments: a spar mine in Illinois, some bonds now down $200 each, two farms, a barbecue stand with filling station and dance hall.