People: Aug. 4, 1930

"Names make news." Last week the following names made the following news:

George Bernard Shaw (74 last week) was asked if he was the tall, bearded man seen riding behind Col. Thomas Edward (Revolt in the Desert) Lawrence. Said he: "Good Heavens, man, I've got a perfectly good motorcycle of my own. . . . I've never ridden pillion in my life, though I shouldn't mind doing so in the ordinary way. But Lawrence's machine is such a great brute of a thing and he goes so fast I doubt whether I could hold...

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