People, Jun. 29, 1931

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

British Economist John Maynard Keynes, lecturing in Manhattan on Depression, remarked: "There is nothing President Hoover could do that an earthquake couldn't do better."

At Beverly Hills, Calif., Lawrence Tibbett Jr,, son of the opera and cinema singer, gave a party, took his friends into the family swimming pool. While the party was in progress, Singer Tibbett telephoned his wife from Manhattan. Suddenly she cried: "Larry's drowning!" Singer Tibbett held the wire through a terrifying 20 min. while the party pulled...

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