People, Aug. 5, 1935

''Names make news," Last week these names made this news:

A Kentucky Colonel, a Kentucky Admiral, an honorary Cherokee Princess, Cecilia Waterbury Cummings, wife of Attorney General Homer Stille Cummings, is a plump, red-headed little Irishwoman celebrated in Washington for her catch-as-catch-can wit and rated one of the most entertaining of New Deal hostesses. Free & easy with the Press, but not with press photographers, she told why she retains no social secretary: "It would cramp my style. I was told I had to have a social secretary, but I just knew what one of them would say to any...

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