People, may 16, 1955

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

Interviewed on CBS's Person to Person, grand old (75) Actress Ethel Barrymore, whose autobiography, Memories, is a bestseller, dredged up an offbeat memory of Calvin Coolidge, shed possible light on why Silent Cal customarily displayed all the spontaneous gaiety of a Vermont blizzard. Leaving the White House after a unilateral chat with Coolidge, Actress Barrymore, in stitches from laughter, was confronted by perplexed newsmen wondering what was so funny. Recalled Ethel: "And I said. 'Something the President just said.' And they all fell flat...

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