People, Feb. 4, 1935

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

In a San Francisco taxi, lean, sepulchral Samuel Morgan Shortridge, 73, onetime (1921-33) U. S. Senator from California, paled and slumped in his seat. The taximan sped his unconscious fare to a hospital. There physicians examined him, shook their heads. They had just issued a bulletin stating that he had collapsed from a heart attack and had not long to live when the ex-Senator's doctor rushed in, re-examined him. Cried the doctor: "He's hungry. He just had his teeth pulled and he's not been...

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