People, Apr. 27, 1931

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

John Galsworthy, preparing to return to England, declared: "It does seem to me, coming back here after five years, that the people of America are more quietly efficient, more kindly if possible, less hurried, and on the whole, more contented-looking than I ever remember them."

In Paris Count Hermann Alexander Keyserling, author (The Travel Diary of a Philosopher), maintained that: "Those women of the Northern ;United] States will not last long because their lives are becoming devoid of emotion. . ....

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