People: Oct. 18, 1926

Had they been interviewed, some people who figured in last week's news might have related certain of their doings as follows:

Oliver Wendell Holmes, 85, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, son of the famed poet and essayist: "Many times during my summer vacation at Beverly Farms, Mass., I had to sit docilely while my portrait was being painted. It is not done yet. I became impatient, demanded: 'How long will this continue? I have something else to do.' Then my wife told the painter: 'Pay no attention to him. Go right ahead and take...

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