People, Jan. 9, 1939

At Bath, England, ex-Emperor Haile Selassie of Abyssinia watched his 15-year-old son, Prince Makonnen, act the part of King of Ethiopia in a Nativity play.

Few days before retiring as U. S. Attorney General, 68-year-old Homer Stille Cummings, class poet at Yale in 1891, confessed that he had written two volumes of poetry during his six years in office. Said he: "I doubt seriously that they will ever see the light of day."

In Geneva the wife of Count Johann Heinrich von Bernstorff, Wartime German Ambassador to the U. S., revealed that he was so...

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