"Names make news." Last week the following names made the following news:
In London the Dean of Canterbury was forced to postpone a radio appeal in behalf of the Asthma Research Council. Cause: an attack of asthma.
With his son King Feisal of Irak supporting one arm, and with his other son the Amir Abdullah of Transjordania supporting his other arm, forlorn former King Hussein of the Hejaz landed in Palestine last week, en route from his exile on the Island of Cyprus to Amman, capital of Transjordiana. Object: needed medical attention.*
President Charles Giffin Pease of the Non-Smokers' Protective League of America, 76, through whose efforts smoking was prohibited in New York subways in 1909, adopted Mrs. A. Audrey Ulric Fiedler, 46, wife of a Newark, N. J. realtor. Henceforth she will call herself Audrey Pease Fiedler. Explained President Pease: "Last May the dear lady was virtually near death. She had been in the care of doctors and was being drugged to death. I was brought in and she was instantly healed. I discovered that what she missed was the spiritual side of life."
Mrs. Dwight Whitney Morrow told members of Manhattan's Women's City Club how, when they were in Mexico, her husband had censored her recently published children's book. The Painted Pig. Because its characters were little Mexicans, cautious Ambassador Morrow changed the sentence "but generals are brittle and easily broken" to read "but glass generals are brittle. . . ." When he had perused the book he sent it for consideration to the Mexican Minister of Foreign Affairs.
William Randolph Hearst made known that the "Hearst-For-President"' buttons which popped up in Los Angeles during his recent visit there had been distributed by one S. F. Champion Jr. on the latter's own initiative. Said Publisher Hearst in a letter to Booster Champion: "1) I have had my day in politics . . . not a very long day nor a very brilliant day,† but sufficient to convince me that my best opportunity for achievement was . . . not in holding office. 2) I am 67 years old. 3) A politician can never tell how much of his sacrifice is due to public demand and how much to personal ambition."
With Miss Ishbel MacDonald presiding last week at a Fabian (Socialist) Society meeting in London, Fabian George Bernard Shaw predicted the fall of her father's cabinet "after the next election," flayed the British dole to unemployed: "Not only are there men who have never worked but there are children who have never known their fathers to work."
"A great service to this community has been rendered by Mr. Percy H. Johnston, president of the Chemical Bank and Trust Co. of New York, who is responsible for the reopening of the Security Bank," read full-page advertisements in Louisville papers last week. Said Banker Johnston: "The people of Kentucky have been 'shellshocked' by recent bank failures, are 'over-appreciative.' "