People, Jul. 5, 1937

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

Senator George William Norris entered Washington’s Naval Hospital to be treated for a “severe gastrointestinal upset.”

The six-week-old third son of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, self-exiled in England, was named Land Morrow Lindbergh-Land is the family name of Flyer Lindbergh’s mother.

At New York’s Floyd Bennett Field, Edward Somers, 12-year-old son of Brooklyn Congressman Andrew L. Somers, stepped into an airplane, took off for a 15-min. solo flight, then made a perfect three-point landing. The Bureau of Air Commerce, which prohibits persons under 16 from piloting airplanes, promptly started to investigate and discovered that Edward had an illegal student’s permit. While Edward was packed off to his grandfather’s, his father, a War pilot, admitted: “Frankly, I tried to get the Air Bureau here to waive the age limit but the Bureau refused and I told Edward. He brought me an application and said, ‘Sign here.’ I did, but I didn’t notice the age. Evidently he lied a little bit about his age. . . .”

On the Starlight Roof of Manhattan’s Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, Dancer Roberta Jonay (Jones), recently a fortnight guest at the White House (TIME, June 21), made her big time debut doing a Hungarian folk dance. Back at her ringside table she received the congratulations of her guests: Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Boettiger, Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr., whose friendship she won after being introduced by her fiance. Earl Miller, onetime (1929-32) Albany bodyguard to the President, now personnel director of the New York State Department of Correction. The California Osteopathic Association attributed much of the success of dancers Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers to the fact that they are knock-kneed.

In the lobby of the White House Executive Offices in Washington, newshawks stopped chatty, Virginia-born Viscountess Astor, who had just come from a talk with the President, and asked for a “few choice words” on the abdication and marriage of the Duke of Windsor. Chatted the longtime Member of Parliament from Sutton Division, Plymouth: “They’ll be very few and very choice, because I’m a politician.”

With two cans of tomato and orange juice. Publisher Bernarr Macfadden, 68,

started from Teterboro. N. J. on a 1,200-mi., non-stop solo flight to Miami,’ Fla. Headwinds forced him down at Charleston, S. C.

“Queen” Helen Werner, longtime Los Angeles political fixer who was tried and freed by State and Federal authorities last year on charges of bribe taking (TIME, Dec. 21), was found unconscious by police on a Long Beach lawn, booked for drunkenness. She forfeited $10 bail.

Vacationing Alfred Emanuel Smith,

Honorary Night Superintendent of New York’s Central Park Zoo. permitted himself to be photographed in London’s Zoo with a llama.

Cinema Director Frank Capra, Playwright Robert Riskin, Cinemactress Edna May Oliver, arrived in the U. S. on

the Italian Liner Rex scratching hives. Explained Purser Luigi Pesenti: “Each year a new supply of Russian grey caviar is taken on and there is too much indulgence. Every year at this time, in June and,July, we always have the cabin passengers suffering from hives.”

When Mrs. Faye Larrison of Caldwell, Ohio was tending her garden, she said, she pulled up a weed encircled by a gold ring. Looking inside she saw the name Zachary Lansdowne. Thus, twelve years after the crash of the U. S. dirigible Shenandoah, was found the Annapolis class ring of its dead commander. The Navy Department and Commander Lansdowne’s friend J. Edgar Hoover had been trying to find the ring since 1925, get it back to his widow, who has since remarried.