People, Sep. 19, 1938

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

On his 83rd birthday, bewhiskered old Poultney Bigelow, friend of the former Kaiser and inveterate iconoclast who is strong for war, dictatorship, beards, boating and hickory wagons for hauling wood and geese, gave out a written "interview," in which he asked all the questions and answered them himself. Some answers: "Stop thinking—take a holiday. . . . To go naked is wholesome, especially for nervous women."

On his travels west (by a politically straight but geographically roundabout route to the American Legion Convention at Los Angeles), New York's watchful little Mayor Fiorello...

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