People, Apr. 2, 1934

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

Over the unmarked hump of ground in South Dakota’s Black Hills where lies Deadwood Dick Carver, boomtown desperado and dime novel hero, the Deadwood Chamber of Commerce voted to place a rough stone monument and a brass plate.

At the 21st annual international flower show in Manhattan J. Pierpont Morgan won a gold medal for his tropical Kalanchoe globulifera coccinea; Mr & Mrs. Marshall Field, first prizes for their mignonettes, larkspur, stock: Mrs. Cornelius Francis Kelley, a first with twelve white Antirrhinum spikes.

Returning to Manhattan from a West Indian holiday, Sprinkler Manufacturer William Magraw discovered that his wife, Lucy Cotton Thomas Ament Hann Magraw, widow of Publisher Edward R. Thomas of the New York Morning Telegraph and twice a divorcee, had cut off all her hair. The New York Dailv Mirror printed her photograph. Said Magraw, who is even balder than his wife: “It is the beginning of a reaction against artificiality. . . . This hairdressing business has become a racket. . . . For color she will wear transformations. … If she wants to wear red, green or purple hair, it is all one with me for I know she will choose whatever shade will best enhance her perfect features.”

During a suit in a Sacramento. Calif. court in which it was disclosed that Max Baer had made $500,000 in the last 18 months and spent it all, the heavyweight amused himself by putting matches in his lawyer’s shoe and lighting them, by sticking gum in his lawyer’s hair.