"Names make news." Last week the following names made the following news:
President Dr. Paul von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg, 80, trudged back to Dietramszell, his summer home in the Bavarian Alps, after three days of successful chamois shooting on the foggy crags nearby.
Field Marshal August von Mack-ensen, 78, reviewed at Potsdam, Germany, veterans of German wars with Denmark, Austria and France (men 77 to 93 years old), dined with them, read to them a telegram from their onetime Emperor Wilhelm II: "The glorious fruits of these wars are now unhappily destroyed by discord, and must be fought for again. Gott mit uns, WILHELM, REX."
Millicent, dowager Duchess of Sutherland, strode up to the locked door of Memorial Hall in Fairmont Park, Philadelphia, knocked imperatively. Wet-eyed, she begged attendants to be allowed to see "The Lady in the Green Dress," by John Singer Sargent. She said: "I am sailing for England . . . must see the picture once more. . . . That portrait was made for me. ... I had to sell it." Attendants let the grey-haired Duchess gaze for five minutes upon herself as she looked 20 years ago.
"Mrs. [Woodrow] Wilson would grace the office and would fill it capably. In many ways we feel that it would be most fitting and appropriate that the Democratic vice presidential nomination should be offered to her." Thus, last week, said a Mrs. W. E. Maulsby of Iowa.
Gar Wood, speed-boatman, sped along the St. Clair River off Al-gomac, Mich., in his Baby America III. One hand on the wheel, eyes intent on the stopwatch, he ignored a passing steamboat. A swell capsized Baby America 111. Three young women rescued stunned Gar Wood. Said he: "I know now how Sharkey felt when Dempsey hit him."
Aimee Semple McPherson was
the object of a request by Vice Admiral Josiah Slutts McKean, U. S. N., to the Los Angeles district attorney, to prosecute "this woman" for adopting for herself and followers evangelical uniforms resembling those of U. S. Navy officers. Charles Augustus Lindbergh, flying from Denver to Pierre, S. Dak., described a circle over Greeley, Col., and passed out of sight. Soon Greeleyites saw a speck returning, wondered if it might be Colonel Lindbergh, again, saw it as a bird which, after it, too, had circled Greeley, was described by an Associated Press correspondent as a "giant" golden eagle.
"Calvin Coolidge has returned from his annual woodchuck hunt in his native State. He broke his record, capturing eleven fine looking and healthy chucks." Last week this report was rediscovered in the Hampshire Gazette (Northampton, Mass.) of Sept. 1, 1902.
Antonio Scotti, baritone, returned from a summer in Italy to begin his 29th season with the Metropolitan Opera Co., Manhattan. Asked which was the "greatest" soprano with whom he had ever sung, said he: "But most of them are still alive! Do you think I'm crazy?"