People, Oct. 29, 1934

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

Lieut.-Colonel Ulysses Simpson Grant 3rd, grandson of the Union general, was advanced to the rank of colonel in the U. S. Army.

Private Robert Edward Lee 4th, 10, great-grandson of the Confederate general, marched in an exhibition drill of the Knickerbocker Greys, a socialite Manhattan cadet corps.

As good as his word, Prince Gottfried zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg turned up in Manhattan to deny that he had been on a Biarritz bed with Mrs. Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt and help Mrs. Vanderbilt regain her little daughter Gloria (TIME, Oct. 8). Said he: “It does look as if there is something very dirty back of all this.” Demanded Mrs. Vanderbilt’s brother, Harry Hays Morgan Jr., who had arrived from France a few days before: “He’s a real prince, eh. what, to come all this way?” Besides Brother Harry, the prince found waiting to testify for Mrs. Vanderbilther two sisters. Lady Furness and Mrs. Benjamin Thaw. Last to arrive, while Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney was winding up her case for the custody of her niece Gloria and her fortune, was ruddy Captain Jefferson Davis Cohn, British sportsman-adventurer. Said Captain Cohn, as he went in to kiss Mrs. Vanderbilt’s hand: “It is all so un-English’

On the basis of a ”charm test” devised by a professor of hygiene. President Andrew J. May of the White House Photographers Association graded his frequent subject, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Dall, gave her 97% From a perfect score Photographer May deducted three points: one because he “suspects” the President’s daughter uses a bit of rouge; one because she does not always toe straight; one because, at 134 lb., she seems slightly underweight. For the new president and football coach of Notre Dame, the South Bend, Ind. Chamber of Commerce held a testimonial dinner, invited Editor Merle Thorpe of The Nation’s Business and President Edward Charles Elliott of Purdue. As Editor Thorpe launched into a blistering attack on the New Deal, President Elliott listened with Democratic disapproval, teetered on the back legs of his chair. Tipping too far, he crashed to the floor. Said President Elliott, picking himself up: ”That was the Notre Dame shift.”

In a desperate effort to save the life of cancer-ridden Actress Lucille La Verne, Los Angeles surgeons removed a set of muscles which had become so infected that her right lung was useless. Splitting the remaining muscles, they pieced together a new muscular system along her right side. Few days later the doctors were delighted to find that Miss La Verne was breathing with both lungs.

Guest of the Society of Women Geographers on her 84th birthday was slim, birdlike Annie Smith Peck, who closed her mountain-climbing career two years ago by tramping up Mount Madison. It was to signalize the most famed of Miss Peck’s exploits that the Peruvian Government in 1908 named the northern peak of Mount Huascaran Cumbre Ana Peck. Miss Peck scaled Cumbre Ana Peck on the sixth attempt but her Swiss guide lost his own mittens and one of hers because “the fool, he didn’t put his foot on them.”

Recalled Miss Peck last week: “I was scared for the first time in my life. I said to myself. ‘Accidents don’t happen in my family,’ and I went on down through the night.” “This General business is not all that it is cracked up to be.” concluded General Evangeline Cory Booth after her first six weeks as international autocrat of the Salvation Army.

The National Business Show in Manhattan held a “Robbie Day” in honor of Frances Mary Robinson, late of the NRA. “I, too, plan to write a book,” General Johnson’s assistant announced, “telling all the nice romantic things about the NRA.”