People, May 17, 1937

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

Upon becoming acting director of Chicago's popular Adler Planetarium, comely Astronomer Maude Bennot, 44. remarked: "There is a field for women in engineering, astronomy and other scientific endeavors. But it is definitely limited— mainly ... in the minds of men."

In honor of George VI's Coronation, Mrs. Sara Delano Roosevelt took spade in hand, planted two English hawthorns in the Shakespeare Garden of Manhattan's Central Park. Told that a similar spade had once been used to plant a tree there in honor of...

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