People, Feb. 29, 1932

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

Recovering from an eye operation, Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald had a tooth pulled.

In a damage case in a San Francisco court Henry W. Moltke, taxicab driver, took the stand. In jest the judge asked if the witness were kin to the late great Prussian general, Helmuth Carl Bernhard Count von Moltke. Replied the witness: "I am his grandson, your Honor. . . . Better a live taxicab driver than a dead general."

In an airplane 5,000 ft. above the English Channel the Dayang Muda of Sarawak (Gladys Palmer Brooke) bore witness "that...

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