People: Oct. 13, 1930

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

Oliver Wendell Holmes, 89, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the U. S., went to Boston, visited the chambers where he was onetime associate (1882-99), onetime chief justice (1899-1902) of the Massachusetts Supreme Court. Declared he, standing before a portrait of Charles Jackson, state supreme court justice from 1813 to 1823: “That old bird was my grandfather.”

To John Davison Rockefeller, 91, went a golf challenge from Judge H. C. Ward, 80, of Sterling, Ill. Judge Ward dared because last week he made a hole-in-one at Rock River.

The Mayflower Hotel in Washington announced that William Jeffries Chewning Jr., young bank clerk who eloped with Margo, daughter of millionaire Senator James Couzens of Michigan would become one of its assistant managers, would report for work daily at 8 a. m. in frock coat and grey trousers, would take up “a receptive post in the main lobby.”

Knute Kenneth Rockne, famed Notre Dame football coach, prepared to open a broker’s office in South Bend’s Odd Fellows Hall as South Bend representative and special partner of R. H. Gibson & Co. of Cincinnati. With him will be Al Feeney, onetime (1911-13) Notre Dame center. Broker Rockne will conduct his new business without interference to his coaching.

John Doeg, U. S. tennis champion, went to work in the advertising department of the Newark (N. J.) News, Commented Colyumist Franklin Pierce Adams in the New York World: “He’d better keep out of the editorial department or they’d make him tennis editor when the season of 1931 begins. And then what will (sic) the amateur rules committee say?”

Elliot Roosevelt, 20, second son of New York’s Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt, entered a Manhattan advertising company’s employ after deciding against a college education at Princeton. Said he on his first day at work: “I don’t know much about it [advertising] yet, of course. … It seems to me that the advertising business might do a great deal to pull the other businesses out of their depression.”

As Bill Robinson, famed Negro tap-dancer, was leaving a Pittsburgh hotel, he heard a woman scream that she had been robbed. Dancer Robinson gave chase to the fleeing thief, fired into the air with a small gold-plated revolver (gift of New York’s police department). A policeman heard the report, did not see the thief, did see Robinson running, fired at and wounded him in the arm. The thief escaped. At the hospital Robinson complimented the policeman on his alertness, his aim.

Alice Diplarakos, 18-year-old Greek brunette who went to Brazil’s International Beauty Contest at Rio de Janeiro fortnight ago (TIME, Sept. 22) as “Miss Europe” and came away as runner-up to “Miss Universe,” arrived in the U. S., made known her intention of giving lectures on ancient and modern Greek culture. Unusual among beauty-winners, she is intelligent, speaks (besides Greek) Eng lish, French, Italian, has no desire for stage or cinema fame. To newshawks she explained how she became Miss Europe: “My mother, some friends and I were at tea one day last year at the British Embassy in Athens when someone for fun suggested we go look at the beauty contest being held in an Athens theatre. We went and sat in a box. The judges . . . suddenly called out my name. I thought they were fooling. . . . When I tried to refuse, the President of Greece said I must accept as a patriotic duty. Three days later I found myself in Paris: I won the European contest, and of course had then to go through with it and go to Rio.” L. Rutherford Stuyvesant, U. S. Vice Consul at Calcutta, gunning in Jalaswar Jungle, met a large bear, fired at close range, failed to kill. The wounded beast charged him, knocked him down, cuffed and bit him until Stuyvesant beat on its nose with his gun butt. Then (the Associated Press said) “the animal, in considerable pain, ran away.” Harry Ford Sinclair, oilman who went to gaol for contempt of court and the U. S. Senate, was admitted with his wife to private audience before Pope Pius XI the day after they had been presented to Prime Minister Mussolini.