People, Sep. 25, 1933

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

Everyone in the world named William (or Guillaume, Guglielmo, Willem, Wilhelm, Guilielmus, Guillermo, Guilherme) was invited to an international Congress of Williams in October 1934 at St. Brieuc, France to celebrate the 700th anniversary of the death of St. Guillaume Pinchon, Bishop of St. Brieuc who in 1225 saved thousands from famine by functioning as Brittany's food dictator.

Coast guards at Shoreham, England, surveying a stormy sea, saw a white speck fluttering in the dusk. Three miles out they found weary-armed James Henry Thomas,...

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