People, Feb. 21, 1938

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

Said oldtime Indiana Humorist George Ade on his 72nd birthday: ''I don't feel a day over 90."

Having finished about six-and-a-half years of an eleven-year term (almost four of them in Alcatraz), Chicago's No. 1 gangster, Alphonse ("Scarface") Capone, was reported to have gone berserk on leaving the dining hall, to have been carried to the infirmary where he spent day after day foolishly making and unmaking his bed. No. 23 on a list of 26 items ''desirable for the happiness of man'' compiled by...

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