People, Feb. 18, 1935

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

To scotch rumors buzzing in the world press last week, this unprecedented announcement was made at Rome's Palazzo Venezia, thick-walled executive sanctum of the Dictator: "Her Excellency Donna Rachele Mussolini, wife of II Capo del Governo, is not with child."

One autumn day in 1933, shortly after she sued Harold Fowler McCormick for $1,500,000 for breach of promise, Mrs. Rhoda Tanner Doubleday was standing on the practice tee of the Valley Club at Santa Clara, Calif. Few feet away, she claims, Major Max Fleischmann, chairman...

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