People, may 21, 1956

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

Peppery old (71) Socialist Norman Thomas sounded off in Houston. On free enterprise: "All the recent business mergers and consolidations make absurd the old-line talk of free enterprise. The only free enterprise in America today is small boys who shoot marbles for keeps." On the Kelly-Rainier merger "If Grace had married the mayor of Las Vegas, she wouldn't have had to produce a son to keep the place going."

At a sizzling swing concert in Britain 23 years ago, Trumpeter Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong recalls, he interrupted himself to roll his eyes toward a...

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