People, Sep. 21, 1936

“Names make news.” Last week these names made this news:

On a fortnight’s training cruise on the U. S. S. Arkansas sailed Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., Harvard junior, as a guest of 500 New England Naval Reservists.

Campaigning with Pennsylvania’s Governor George Howard Earle in Allen-town, Democrat Jack Dempsey busily scribbled autographs, asked one eager moppet: “And don’t you want the Governor’s signature too?” Retorted the moppet: “Naw, I only want yours.”

Mississippi’s Governor Hugh Lawson White and Louisiana’s Richard Webster

Leche, each 6 ft. i in. tall and weighing 250 lb., staged a yachting race on Biloxi

Bay, Miss. A novice sailor, Louisiana’s Leche selected Commodore Garner N. Tullis of the Southern Yacht Club to be his skipper. Mississippi’s White, however, had no trouble winning the race. Said the Governor of Louisiana to the Governor of Mississippi: “Governor, you’re a damn fine sailor.”

Acquitted at Woburn, Mass, last month of the charge of driving while under the influence of liquor (TIME, Aug. 24). ir Boston Robert Ickes, adopted son of the Secretary of the Interior, Harold Le Clair Ickes, ran his coupe into another automobile, injuring five.

Arriving in Manhattan from Europe Board Chairman Edward F, Hutton of

General Foods Corp. snapped at reporters: “Some one campaigning for Roosevelt said that every time I opened my mouth I created 10.000 more votes for Roosevelt. If that’s the case, I’d better keep it shut hereafter.”