People, Jan. 18, 1937

“Names make news.” Last week these names made this news: The U. S. Senate passed a bill granting a $5,000 pension to Mrs. Grace Goodhue Coolidge, widow of the 30th President.

Rubye Louise Nix Zioncheck, 21, onetime PWA typist, widow of Seattle’s late eccentric Representative Marion Zioncheck, entered the University of Washington Home Economics School.

Said she: “I am naturally interested in economics and political science since I have been so closely associated with politics.”

In a closed sedan parked in the street at Guilford, Conn., police found two dead persons who had apparently been overcome by carbon monoxide fumes, though the ignition was shut off. To prove to baffled police that the victims could not have been asphyxiated when the car was in the open, Yale Physiologist Yandell Henderson entered the tightly-closed sedan, sat safely inside 25 minutes with the motor running.

In Manhattan’s Town Hall, Author Christopher Morley debated his brother, Editor Felix Morley of the Washington Post on the topic: “Do Newspapers Do More Harm Than Good?” Said Brother Christopher, arguing the affirmative: “Felix is a diplomat of the status quo— he comes before you as a Talleyrand; I, shrinking in my intellectual exposure, will be a Sally Rand.” Cornered at a Methodist Bishop’s Council in New Orleans, famed Prohibition-crusading Bishop James Cannon Jr., 72, admitted he had tasted liquor for the first time when his doctor last fortnight prescribed 30-drop doses of wine. “But I still don’t like it,” he snapped, declaring Prohibition would return by 1945.

Promised he would be arrested daily for vagrancy as long as he remained in Miami, Salvatore Spitale, celebrated underworld intermediary of the Lindbergh kidnapping case, left town within 48 hours, claiming his departure was occasioned not by the police but by the embarrassment the publicity was causing his young children in Manhattan schools.

For refusing to make personal appearances to encourage the sale of “Old Champ” liniment. Negro Pugilist Jack Johnson was sued for $360.96 damages by his partner, Morris Botwen. Boxer Johnson declared the liniment Partner Botwen was marketing was not the same good “Old Champ” he had given friends for years to “cure toothaches, headaches or any other kind of ache.”

Coaxed into posing together at the Miami Biltmore Hotel were George Ade, 71, oldtime Indiana humorist, lately recuperated from a lung infection, and Annette Kellerman, 49. oldtime exhibition natator. scheduled for a Miami exhibition next month. Mr. Ade. as quoted by Miami publicity men: “This is the first time I have been requested to pose with a bathing beauty and I am nattered.” On an African pleasure cruise, during which he will write on health conditions. sailed Dr. Victor George Reiser (An American Doctor’s Odyssey) with two rich, adventure-seeking friends, bachelor Manhattan Socialite Alec Hutchinson and Max Epstein, Chicago tank car tycoon who chairmanned the Wartime Draft Board. “Yellow fever.” observed adventuring Dr. Heiser. “has been largely driven back into Africa. . . . One infected person or one infected mosquito carried to Europe or India by plane could start an epidemic that would wipe out millions. It would probably be the greatest disaster in the history of the world!”