People, May 2, 1932

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

Norman Hapgood, onetime editor of Collier's Weekly, Harper's Weekly, Hearst's International, Envoy Extraordinary &; Minister Plenipotentiary to Denmark under President Wilson, dramatic critic, author, turned himself into a radio announcer, to advertise the soups of Columbia Conserve Co., famed for its conversion by the Hapgood clan into a social ized industry where employes own 51% of the common stock (TIME, July 21, 1930).

Turfman Willis Sharpe Kilmer, owner of world's largest money-winner Sun Beau ($356,044), hired the handlers of the late famed Australian gelding Phar Lap— Trainer Treve ("Tommy") Woodcock, Veterinary Walter Nielsen and Jockey Willie Elliot will be given a free hand with eight or ten Kilmer horses. Unlike U. S. trainers who give their horses stiff, frequent tests for speed, Australia's Trainer Woodcock believes in long loping canters to build stamina, stretch muscles. Rich, hearty Turfman Kilmer was not rich until after he had built up his father's proprietary medicine business (Swamp-root}, invested shrewdly, bought the prosperous Binghamton, N. Y., Press. When people used to ask what Swamproot was good for, Mr. Kilmer would grunt : "Good for $100,000 a year."

Playwright George Bernard Shaw revealed that he had written a "long short story" of 15,000 words, his first work of fiction since writing five unsuccessful novels in the early 1880's. It treats of God and Fundamentalism, has as yet no title, will be published next autumn. Said Novelist Shaw : "I don't believe it will interest you in America."

At Mount Pleasant, N. Y. on the estate of Mrs, Harold Fowler McCormick Jr. ("Fifi" Stillman), a pack of hungry dogs attacked a herd of sheep, slew 18. Extra guards were posted around the neighboring estate of Mr. McCormick's grandfather, John Davison Rockefeller.

In a short feature story in the New York American, Vicki Baum, Vienna-born German novelist, playwright of Grand Hotel, told of the severe criticism she met in Germany when she declared a wish to become a U. S. citizen and have her two sons become Americans: "... I found on my desk letters in which gentle young Germans called me pet names. Of these 'Old Sow' was the friendliest. As I read these letters I had the sure feeling that young Americans would not address such words to a woman unknown to them. . . . That experience strengthened me in my resolution to raise my boys in a country in which it is not taken for granted that a woman should clean a man's boots."

The Chamber of Commerce of St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands submitted to the U. S. State Department last week resolutions to invite Ex-Kaiser Wilhelm II, who has been advised by his physician that the Doom climate is too severe, to spend his remaining years on the Virgin Islands.