People, May 22, 1933

Names make news. Last week these names made this news:

Sir Francis & Lady Wylie, making a round of visits to Rhodes Scholars in the U. S., were treated to something more than a meal at the formal dinner given in their honor at the University of Iowa. Harry Breene, Iowa City's newly elected Republican Mayor, a onetime railroad ticket agent, slipped, sprawled headlong into a fountain. He crawled out spluttering. shook water on nearby guests, fled in confusion. Nonplussed, Jacob Van der Zee. Iowa's Rhodes Scholarship committeeman, ordered the banquet to proceed. Local...

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