"Names make news." Last week these names made this news:
Edward Townsend Stotesbury, Civil War drummer boy and senior Philadelphia partner of Drexel & Co., a Morgan affiliate, surprised photographers at the Philadelphia Union League's Kindergarten Club dinner by declaring he would never again be photographed in his familiar act of beating a drum. A Kansas City woman had written him that he should be ashamed of such puerile publicity.
A new species of Panamanian civet cat called by the Chiriqui Indians the "Hoo-Hoo-Nah" was named Bassaricyon pauli by the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences after its discoverer, Amateur Explorer Anthony Joseph Drexel Paul Jr., Harvard classmate & friend of Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr., whose Philadelphia banking family have been generous Academy patrons.
The Maharanee of Indore underwent an appendectomy in Hollywood.
Muscovites went in droves to pay 12 rubles ($2.40) apiece to hear Negro Baritone Paul Robeson sing Ol' Man River and Old Black Joe at the Moscow Conservatory, cheered wildly when he spoke a few words in Russian.
Pulling out of her driveway in Beverly Hills, Calif., Cinemactress Miriam Hopkins collided with an automobile driven by Mrs. Fred Astaire, suffered a dislocated shoulder, a bruised nose.
In Hollywood sad-singing Authoress Dorothy Rothschild Parker (Mrs. Alan Campbell) announced that she expects a child in June.
On a transcontinental motor trip to Hollywood, Gladys Cecil Georgina Lady Guernsey, mother of the cinemastruck Earl of Aylesford, paused at Dallas, had 18 pairs of shoes, four suitcases full of clothes and two sable wraps worth $25,000 stolen from her parked car.
On trial in Manhattan went Brooklyn Lawyer A. Harry Ross and Private Detective Max D. Krone, charged with extorting $5,000 from President Samuel C. Stampleman of Gillette Safety Razor Co. Ruefully President Stampleman told of how he had been introduced to brunette Helen Conboy in 1933, had taken her to Boston for a four-day "platonic" sojourn at the Statler Hotel. Not long thereafter Detective Krone approached Mr. Stampleman, arranged for $5,000 to persuade Miss Conboy not to sue Mr. Stampleman for doping and assaulting her. "I'd have gladly paid $10,000," snapped Razorman Stampleman. "That affidavit of hers was just plain murder." The extortion case suddenly collapsed as a mistrial when the prosecution mentioned to the jury a previous indictment of Krone & Ross for similarly extorting $12,900 from Alfred Emanuel Smith Jr. after he had spent a night in a Manhattan hotel with a blonde (TIME, May 25).