People, Jan. 7, 1935

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

Inducted in Manhattan as President of the Poetry Society of America was Editor Henry Goddard Leach of Forum. Editor Leach would have taken office a month earlier if Central Park thugs had not mashed his face, closed his eyes on the day before the scheduled ceremony (TIME, Dec. 3).

By way of celebrating his 70th birthday, tall, lean, goat-bearded General Peyton Conway March, Chief of Staff during the last months of the War, welcomed newshawks in his Washington office, told them that the U. S....

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