People, Jun. 1, 1936

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

On their way to chapel at Amherst College, where both are juniors, Henry Stuart Hughes, grandson of Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, and Charles Whitman Jr., son of New York's onetime Governor Charles Seymour Whitman, were shaken up but escaped injury when a truck bashed into the side of Undergraduate Hughes's automobile.

Hearing that a man in Montana was bragging about the antiquity of his razor, a 146-year-old English blade, Dr. Allan Chester Johnson, Princeton Latinist, announced that he was trimming his beard with...

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