People, Jun. 27, 1932

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"Names make news." Last week these names made this news:

Concluding a six-week visit to the U. S. (TIME, May 2), Dr. Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman, "soul surgeon," set sail for England with 15 members of his "First Century Christian Fellowship." In Washington, said he, Herbert Hoover received his party. To one meeting went Supreme Court Justice Harlan Fiske Stone— Present at a meeting in Dearborn, Mich, were Mr. & Mrs. Henry Ford. Soul Surgeon Buchman said that his movement had also interested Mrs. Thomas Alva Edison and Harvey Firestone.

General Plutarco Elias Calles, Minister of War and onetime President of Mexico, raced from Mexico City to Manhattan by special train with his second wife, Senora Leonor Llorente Calles, 26, suffering acutely from intercranial pressure induced either by a tumor or meningitis. In Manhattan the party was met by General Calles' son-in-law, Dr. Joseph Jordan Eller.

Lavish with Roosevelts was commencement time in the East. Archibald, son of the late great Theodore, was elected president of Phillips Andover Academy Alumni Association. His son Archibald Jr. won a lower school reading prize at Groton; his nephew Kermit Jr. the second Heard Poetry Prize. Franklin Delano Roosevelt (see p. 13), an old "Grottie," went up to Groton where his sons John A. and Franklin D. Jr. are enrolled.

A Form Prize-winner at Groton was Tudor Gardiner, son of Maine's Governor William Tudor Gardiner. At Andover Ring W. Lardner Jr., son of the taciturn humorist, won two English prizes, one honorable mention. Eugene O'Neill Jr. won a Greek philosophy prize, was named Ivy Orator at Yale. From Princeton were graduated (with high honors in modern languages) Mark Sullivan Jr., son of the political writer and (with high honors in art & archaeology) William Watt Blanton, son of Texas' Representative Thomas Lindsay Blanton. From Holy Cross College (Worcester, Mass.) was graduated Francis R., son of Tammany Leader John Francis Curry.

While Mrs. Josephine Diebitsch Peary, relict of North Pole-discovering Robert Edwin Peary, waved farewell, her daughter, Mrs. Marie Ahnighito ("Snow Baby") Peary Stafford, the latter's sons Peary, 14, and Edward, u, and Captain Robert Abram ("Bob") Bartlett, 56, sailed from Staten Island for Cape York, Greenland. Also aboard were a cow (named Dilwyn Beatrice) and two pigs for Captain Bob's mother at Brigus, Newfoundland. At Cape York the boys will help erect a 60-ft. limestone monument near where their mother was born in 1893, the world's most northerly born white child.

Harold, 20. son of Cinemactor Adolphe Menjou, was arrested on a murder charge in Los Angeles after his automobile overturned at 80 m. p. h. and killed his companion, a Miss Marjorie Gauthier, 16.

Funnyman Ed Wynn's son Frank ran aground his father's motorboat. All Wet, in the East River within sight of his Manhattan apartment; tooted his siren for two hours until police rescued him.

Leaving a party at Manhattan's swank Central Park Casino at 3 a. m. Louis J. Ehret, 22, grandson of the late Brewer George Ehret, drove his automobile into a Central Park lamppost. His companion, beauteous Eileen Wenzel ("Miss St. Louis" of 1925, lately a Ziegfeld showgirl) was severely cut on the face by glass.