People, Aug. 20, 1934

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

In Northampton, Mass., Mrs. R. B. Hills denied that her good friend Mrs. Calvin Coolidge would remarry, thought that rumors "ought to die down."

In his garden at Palo Alto newscameramen found Herbert Hoover on his 60th birthday, persuaded him to pose. "Anyway, nowadays I only have to do this once or twice a year," they heard him say. "I am afraid," he apologized, "there is nothing to talk about. . . . The interesting things are those we can't talk about."

Century ago,...

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