People: Mar. 31, 1930

"Names make news." Last week the following names made the following news:

The 100-year-old farmhouse of Mellie Dunham, Henry Ford's favorite fiddler, at Norway, Me., burned down. Stoically said Mellie: "Still got Gram [his wife], and still got the fiddles."

On the occasion of his portrait by Charles Hopkinson being presented to Harvard Law School, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes of the U. S. Supreme Court (Harvard, 1861) wrote: ". . . my emotions, were I to be present at the presentation of the portrait, would be embarrassing, but fortunately for my composure I cannot...

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