People, Mar. 22, 1937

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

Skiing near Montpelier, Vt., Harvard’s President James Bryant Conant tried a fast telemark, snapped a ski, tumbled, snapped his left collarbone. Rushed back to Cambridge, crippled Scholar Conant rallied sufficiently to make his first political statement since assuming the Harvard presidency, denouncing Harvardman Roosevelt’s Supreme Court plan as “contrary to the spirit of a free, democratic government” and “dangerous in the extreme.”

Philadelphia police arrested Charles Kemble Butler Wister, 29, son of Novelist Owen Wister, for drunken driving, few hours later arrested the Wister chauffeur, David J. McNaull, for attempting to lure three high-school girls into his automobile.

Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. refused the request of twelve-year-old Calvin Kuiper of Sheboygan, Wis. for “a few gold bars” to melt up for toy soldiers.

New York’s Court of Appeals denied the suit of twelve-year-old Peter Alfred Constantin Maria Salm to escape a $1,727,02..? State inheritance tax on his third of the $10,000,000 estate left by his grandfather, Standard Oilman Henry Huddleston Rogers.

In Vienna, Ferdinand Kurt Hahn, an impoverished and crippled bastard, won a court order raising to $65 per month his allowance from his half-brother Duke Maximilian von Hohenberg, legitimate son & heir of the late Archduke Franz Ferdinand (Sarajevo, June 28, 1914).

In Los Angeles, oldtime Cinemactress Theo Carew, onetime leading lady for the late John Drew, pioneer woman aviator, penniless relict of the Marquis di Marcone, was caught stealing $2 worth of groceries.

To Washington from the Winchester, Va. farm where he retired ten years ago went eccentric Harry K. Thaw, murderer of Stanford White, to contest a $10,000 damage suit brought by the Shoreham Hotel’s Headwaiter Paul Jaeck. Waiter Jaeck charged that Thaw, when handed a $57 dinner check in 1935, had attacked him, ground cigaret ashes into his eye. Waiter Jaeck was awarded $2,200 damages.

Two weeks before scheduled, Author-Actor Noel Coward closed his Tonight at 8:30 series in Manhattan, pleading laryngitis and nervous exhaustion.

When a railroad official asked passengers on a train passing through Aberdeen, Scotland if one of them had lost a couple of violins, up jumped Violinist Jascha Heifetz, sputteringly recalled that he had left his Stradivarius and Joseph Guarnerius worth $150,000 in the Dundee station lunchroom. “And did I have the jitters until they arrived by the next train!” cried he afterward.

Attending a session of the West Palm Beach Criminal Court fortnight ago in his capacity as deputy sheriff and amateur criminologist, muscular Author Charles Francis (“Socker”) Coe (G-Man, Knockout) saw 14-year-old Anthony Anastor brought up to be sentenced for stealing a sailboat, persuaded the judge to let him give the boy another chance as a member of the Coe household. Last week Criminologist Coe returned home one day to find his protege gone with his $2,000 speedboat, two pistols, $110 cash. “I played fair with you, didn’t I, Bud?” sighed he, facing the boy in court again. “How fair have you been to me? When you think that over and learn the answer you’ll have learned much about life. That’s all now. I’m through.” On his 100th birthday anniversary the City of Buffalo, N. Y. accepted a bust of Grover Cleveland which had been rejected 52 years ago because the sculptor had left off one of the coat buttons.

Ambitious Labor Leader John Llewellyn Lewis, who resides in the Alexandria, Va. house once occupied by George Washington’s physician, bought the Alexandria house where Revolutionary General Henry (“Light-horse Harry”) Lee is reputed to have delivered his famed oration on Washington’s death.

When his fishing launch failed to reach Key West on schedule, two Coast Guard planes flew off in search of Sir Charles Ross, inventor of the Ross rifle, no kin to the Charley Ross kidnapped from Germantown, Pa. in 1874 and still missing. Same day Sir Charles turned up safe.