People, Dec. 25, 1933

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

Greta Garbo had a six-foot fir sent from Sweden for her Christmas tree.

A soprano soloist's rendition of the largo ("Going Home") movement from Dvorak's New World Symphony at a private recital of the Westminster Choir School in Princeton, N. J. so moved Albert Einstein that tears flooded his eyes. Afterward he enthusiastically congratulated the wrong singer on the performance.

The Manhattan brokerage house of Weicker & Co. announced it would take a new partner on Jan. 2: Francis Warren Pershing, 24, only son of General...

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