People, Aug. 16, 1937

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

When a London gossip writer mentioned Columnist Dorothy Thompson for the Presidency, newshawks scurried to get her reaction. "Ridiculous," she pooh-poohed. "I'm very much for it," declared Husband Sinclair Lewis, "then I can syndicate a column called 'My Day'!"

Ill lay kinky-bearded, 64-year-old Thorvald Stauning, Premier of Denmark, after breaking a leg. The New York Times said he tripped over a "grassy knoll" near Loekken while he was showing friends a short cut across sand dunes to the main road from his seaside bungalow. The...

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