People, Jul. 5, 1937

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

Senator George William Norris entered Washington's Naval Hospital to be treated for a "severe gastrointestinal upset."

The six-week-old third son of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, self-exiled in England, was named Land Morrow Lindbergh-Land is the family name of Flyer Lindbergh's mother.

At New York's Floyd Bennett Field, Edward Somers, 12-year-old son of Brooklyn Congressman Andrew L. Somers, stepped into an airplane, took off for a 15-min. solo flight, then made a perfect three-point landing. The Bureau of Air Commerce, which prohibits persons under 16 from...

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