People, Dec. 16, 1935

"Names make news." Last week these names made this news: Traveling through Austin, Tex., Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins was assured by local boosters that in Texas the poor are rich in "sunshine and wide open spaces." Snapped Madam Secretary: "I can't see they help any. ... If I were making a choice I would starve in the city with a lot of other people."

Novelist Gertrude Atherton, 78, whose Black Oxen told the story of a woman who was rejuvenated, decided to tell the Press about her own two ''reactivation" treatments. "At first,"...

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