People, Apr. 8, 1935

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

Jack Dempsey sent Manhattan newspapers five studio poses of his daughter Joan Hannah Dempsey, aged 7 mo. 24 days.

Best shot: nude Daughter Joan Hannah lying on her back, scratching her left ankle with both hands.

Nominated for the eighth quinquennial election to New York University’s Hall of Fame were 76 late, famed U. S. citizens. Among them: Author Louisa May Alcott (Little Women); Suffragist Susan Brownell Anthony; Matthew B. Brady, who photographed 3,500 battle and camp scenes of the Civil War; Grover Cleveland, 22nd and 24th President; Stephen Crane, Spanish War correspondent, author (The Red Badge of Courage); President Jefferson Davis of the Confederate States of America; Designer John Fitch who built four successful steamships before Robert Fulton; Songwriter Stephen Collins Foster (“Nelly Was a Lady”); Inventor Charles Goodyear (vulcanization of rubber); Mrs. Sarah Josepha Buell Hale, editor of Godey’s Lady’s Book, sponsor of Thanksgiving Day as a national holiday, poet (“Mary Had a Little Lamb”) ; Author Joel Chandler Harris (Uncle Remus Stories); Colonel Robert Green Ingersoll, agnostic lawyer, lecturer, debater; Explorer Elisha Kent Kane, who pioneered part of Peary’s route to the North Pole; Composer Edward Alexander MacDowell (“To a Wild Rose”); Inventor Robert McCormick (harvester); Novelist Herman Melville (Moby Dick); Abolitionist Lucretia Coffin Mott; Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, hero of the Battle of Lake Erie; Sakajawea, Indian woman guide of the Lewis & Clark expedition; Reformer Lucy Stone; Settler John Augustus Sutter who owned the California mill where gold was discovered in 1848; Zachary Taylor, 12th President; Inventor Lewis Edson Waterman (fountain pen).

Columbia’s President Nicholas Murray Butler, who gets his biography into one column and one line of Who’s Who only by the device of listing decorations from twelve foreign countries “and so forth,” honorary degrees from 20 universities “and many others,” announced that Chile had made him a Grand Officer of the Order of Merit; that Cuba had given him the Grand Cross of the Order of Carlos Finlay and Greece the Cross of the Grand Commander of the Order of the Saviour; that the University of Edinburgh had promised him an LL. D. in June.

Said Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, in a radio broadcast, of her troubles in keeping the White House: “Pipes will leak at frequent intervals and rats and mice like old buildings, regardless of tradition. Two friends of mine, sitting on the South Porch at breakfast one summer morning, tried to reassure themselves that a squirrel ran across the floor and refused to admit until they were safely upstairs that they had seen a large rat.”

Of an interview with the late Chief Usher Irwin Hood (“Ike”) Hoover when Mrs. Roosevelt moved in: “He instructed me that the President, out of his salary, pays for all food for all the servants and the family with their unofficial guests, but, that anything which is an official entertainment, where both political parties are represented, is paid for out of a govern-ment fund, so that if the President invites a number of Senators for breakfast or lunch he must be sure not to have them all of one political faith. Otherwise he will pay for the meal out of his own pocket.”

Guest of Charles Spencer Chaplin at the Hollywood studio where he is working on Production No. 5, his first cinema in five years, was John Leslie (“Jackie”) Coogan, 20, sophomore law student at the University of Southern California. Cinemactor Chaplin ran off The Kid for onetime Cinemactor Coogan, who said he had never seen the film in which they were co-starred 16 years ago.

On the day that Author Evelyn John St. Loe Strachey had planned to sail for England, the U. S. Government dropped its deportation proceedings against him (TIME, March 25), let him sail.

After a month’s circuit of the Fiji Islands with a British judge trying native cases. Sheila MacDonald, youngest daughter of England’s Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald. landed in Vancouver, B. C., left quietly for a tour of the U. S. Newshawks found her in a Portland, Ore., courtroom listening intently to the trial of a special policeman charged with murdering one Simon Mish. Miss MacDonald wanted to compare U. S. justice with Fiji justice.