People, Jul. 2, 1934

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

Bedded in a Manhattan hospital with a broken ankle in a plaster cast, Primo Carnera watched movies of the fight which lost him the heavyweight championship of the world to Max Baer. Cried Ex-Champion Carnera: "Look at me go down ... I fall. I fall again. Look at Baer grin, the big smart Alec." Then he wept.

For nude bathing in a New Haven, Conn, reservoir. Oliver & Charles Brooks, sons of austere Critic Van Wyck Brooks, were arrested, fined.

Marguerite A. ("Missy") Le Hand, youngish, grey-haired private secretary to Franklin D. Roosevelt for the past 14 years, celebrated the beginning of her first extended vacation in four years by slipping into a bright plaid dress and boarding the S. S. Manhattan for Europe. With her on the six-week trip went Grace Tully, stenographer to the President. Said Private Secretary Le Hand : "There are lots of things I never know about until I see them in the newspapers."

"Woodrow Wilson was a gallant lover, an ardent wooer. His anxiety to make a good impression was delightful. He seemed no more certain of success than any other man might and he exhausted all the tricks of this old trade. . . . The President had a private tele phone wire run from his bedroom to Mrs. Gait's house. He wrote her long letters. . . . The Library of the White House not supplying him with sufficient quotations, he called on the Library of Congress for poetic phrases. Flowers were ordered for her daily . . . purple orchids. These carried a special message . . . and when she appeared she always wore a single one high on the left shoulder." Thus did the late Irwin H. ("Ike") Hoover, longtime chief usher at the White House, describe in the Satevepost the nine-month courtship and marriage in 1915 of the 28th President of the U. S. and Mrs. Edith Boiling Gait.

Stockholder Henry Boomsma obtained a court order temporarily restraining the California Delta Farms, Inc. from selling $150-an-acre land to Herbert Hoover for $50 an acre, on the ground that such a sale would place Citizen Hoover under an obligation to the directors of California Delta Farms.

Richard Washburn Child, onetime Ambassador to Italy, was in Holland gauging economic conditions for President Roosevelt when his $1,000,000 plagiarism suit against Playwright James Hagan and the Paramount interests was thrown out of a Federal Court in Manhattan. After alleging that Playwright Hagan's One Saturday Afternoon was cribbed out of his novel, The Avenger, Plaintiff Child had tried to withdraw his suit with an apology. Refusing to permit this. Judge John M. Woolsey dismissed the suit only after assessing costs & fees against Mr. Child and remarking: "It gave me a pain. The charges are absolutely unfounded."

Russians beheld the arrival upside down in Leningrad last week of U. S. Ambassador William Christian Bullitt as the government plane, piloted from Moscow by the U. S. military attache, nosed over on landing and left both men hanging heels over heads from their safety straps. First news of this event reached President Roosevelt in an Ambassadorial cable: "PLANE LANDED UPSIDE DOWN BUT WE EMERGED RIGHT SIDE UP. TRUST NO ONE HAS REPORTED TO YOU THAT WE ARE DEAD."