People, Dec. 13, 1937

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

According to its new university catalog, Harvard’s two Lowells have only one Cabot to talk to.

Tennessee-born Singer Grace Moore arrived in Manhattan with a Tennessee ham, was asked by photographers to pose with it. As she did so, her pressagent warned: “You know what the caption will be: a couple of Tennessee hams.”

Arizona’s Senator Henry Fountain Ashurst, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee who has publicly referred to himself as the “Dean Emeritus of Inconsistency,” said to reporters: “If any President so far forgot himself as to appoint me to the Supreme Court, I would never take my place on the bench—because I would die of surprise.” Next day the phonographic Senator told an autograph-beggar to write to his office. “I’ll not only send you my autograph,” said he, “but the greatest thing for insomnia you ever had—a set of my speeches.”

During the shooting of Happy Landing, Skater Sonja Henie fell, landed on her head, was treated for slight concussion. Few days later Norway’s King Haakon made her a Knight of St. Olaf.

Settling in Manhattan after their honeymoon, Mr. & Mrs. “John King Roosa Jr., Republicans, learned that their telephone number (Rhinelander 4-7428) had once belonged to the town house of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Came calls for Roosevelts, servants, secretaries. James Roosevelt rang up. A friend of Mrs. Roosevelt telephoned to apologize frantically for being late because she had left theatre tickets at home. Last week, after Manhattan newspapers publicized the number, harassed Mrs. Roosa ordered the telephone disconnected, went on a trip. For hunting duck over baited fields near Charleston, South Carolina, Publisher Nelson Doubleday and friends were fined $450, their ducks sent to a charitable institution. Hunting with his brother Winthrop near Kingsville, Tex., Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller, son of John D. Rockefeller Jr., was taken ill. Said his doctors: “It is a ticklish point and strictly a matter of opinion whether it is pneumonia.” As Pennsylvania’s deer-hunting season opened, Vice President John Nance Garner posed for photographers with a shotgun, set forth with nine Senators, shot down a 120-pound four-point buck, hoisted the carcass over his shoulders, posed some more until Indiana’s Senator Sherman Minton cracked: “That deer’s been photographed so much it’s got Kleig eyes.”

As Benito Mussolini prepared to christen a private plane at Rome’s Lictor airport, his portly, placid wife Rachele Mussolini forbade him to break the champagne bottle on the propeller. Meekly II Duce touched bottle to craft, gave the champagne to attendants, who drank it.

Moving into temporary two-room quarters on the 22nd floor of the Empire State Building, New York City’s Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia discussed with Empire State’s President Alfred E. Smith alterations currently under way in his City Hall executive offices. Said Landlord Smith: “City Hall looks like it needs to be sent to the laundry. You ought to sandblast it.” Tenant LaGuardia: “That would be like polishing the dust off a bottle of old wine.”

Dean Ralph Dennis of Northwestern University’s School of Speech awarded to Charlie McCarthy, No. i U. S. dummy, the honorary degree of Master of Innuendo and Snappy Comeback. The citation: “He is … a prince of parasites, violent in company, churlish in behaviour, acid in conversation, wooden-faced in all relationships, and in all other aspects a typical product of higher learning in America.”*

To 60-year-old anti-war Polemist Rosika Schwimmer, originator of the Ford Peace Ship plan in 1915, went a World Peace Prize Award of $8,300, collected from 24 countries by an international committee including Albert Einstein, Emil Ludwig, Stefan Zweig, Ignazio Silone. Mme Schwimmer fled her native Hungary in 1920 after political upheavals which ousted her from the national cabinet, was denied U. S. citizenship by the Supreme Court in 1929. A tireless, homeless agitator, she has been freely circularized by her enemies as “German spy, Bolshevik agent and swindler of Henry Ford,” by her friends as “the world’s most powerful woman.” Last week in Manhattan, after acknowledging her award with a speech proposing a World Federation of Nations, she lamented that the prize money would cancel only her “most pressing” debts.

*As publicity for the forthcoming Goldwyn Follies, in which McCarthy will appear, Samuel Goldwyn’s sly Pressagent Jock Lawrence sent a form-letter to United Artist distributors asking that they vote for the dummy as TIME’S Man-of-the-Year.