People: Jun. 18, 1928

"Names make news." Last week the following names made the following news:

Ernest W. Marland, Oklahoma oilman, gave a housewarming to open his $2,000,000 mansion at Ponca City. The 100 guests were dined, entertained by famed vaudevillians, presented with silver loving, cups. But the party was early and sober, for all 100 guests were small children, young proteges of Magnate Marland.

Col. William Boyce Thompson, director of Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., active Republican, gave $350,000 to Phillips Exeter Academy for science and administration buildings.

Benjamin Winter, onetime Polish errand boy, continued his gigantic rearrangements of Manhattan real estate by purchasing from Arthur Curtiss James,...

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