People, Apr. 19, 1937

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

In London the Stamp Collectors' Fortnightly, favorite reading of George V, observed that "much as we all admired—al-most worshipped—Edward VIII, it was well known that he was not personally a philatelist."

Largest individual order received by Paris couturiers since the War came from the Duchess of Kent, who purchased 22 dresses for her summer and Coronation wardrobe. Estimated cost: $15,000.

On Premier Leon Blum's 65th birthday, yeggs broke into the Paris office of the silk business run by his three brothers, blew the safe with an acetylene torch, stole $2,000.

To the wedding of James Potter Polk, son of onetime (1918-19) Acting Secretary of State Frank Lyon Polk, and Margaret Smith Salvage in swank Lattingtown, L. I. went J. Pierpont Morgan. When he went into the church, he clapped his topper over his face to foil a battery of nine cameramen. When he left the church he threatened the cameramen with his umbrella. On each occasion he was thoroughly photographed. Muttered the 69-year-old financier, getting into his Rolls-Royce: "They won't leave me alone. And those flashlights scare me to death!"

At the Bowie, Md. racetrack Vice President John Nance Garner, Senators Nathan Lynn Bachtnan of Tennessee and Sherman Minton of Indiana bet $2 each on Minton, a rank outsider, won $24.90 apiece when Minton came in first.

In Washington's Emergency Hospital granddaughter Sara Roosevelt, 6, daughter of eldest Son & Secretary James, was operated on for acute appendicitis.

General John Joseph Pershing, 76. was interviewed under a tree at his home in Lincoln, Neb., on the 20th anniversary of the U. S. entrance into the War. Had he any comment on the occasion? "Hush, gentlemen," whispered the A. E. F.'s Commander-in-Chief. "Hear that redbird sing? That is more important to me right now."

The Hill Top Engine Company of Pocantico Hills, N. Y. elected John Davison Rockefeller Jr, a volunteer fireman, entitling him to use the firehouse player piano, ride on the firetruck. No vamp, Mr. Rockefeller recently underwrote his town's new fire house.

Jostling in Cherry Blossom Festival crowds in Washington. Huberts Potter Earle, wife of Pennsylvania's Governor, lost a $250 diamond brooch bearing the Pennsylvania coat of arms.

Edsel Ford, son of Henry, bought an estate on Jupiter Island, north of Palm Beach.

In Copenhagen, Professor Auguste Piccard announced that he would attempt to break the 72,395-ft. stratosphere record of Major Orvil A. Anderson & Captain Albert W. Stevens (TIME. Nov. 18, 1935) needed $60,000 backing for which he would consider offers from all but liquor and tobacco sellers. Said he: "Any firm dealing in soap, motorcars, vacuum cleaners or whatnot will do."

Wilbur Burton Foshay, whose $50,000,000 Northwestern utilities empire ranked second only to Samuel Insult's, was released from Leavenworth Penitentiary after serving five years of a 15-year term for mail fraud, straggled home to Minneapolis to look for a job, had to ask permis-ion to step on the African mahogany floors in his former office in the Foshay Tower. "Rebuild my empire? God. man, how can I?" moaned he. "I haven't a penny. Not one red cent."