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Ill lay: Showman Lee Shubert, in Manhattan, of a glandular ailment; Banker Paul Moritz Warburg, in Manhattan, of a "breakdown of the eye nerves"; Jane Addams, famed social worker, in Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, recovering rapidly from an operation for ovarian cyst; Cinemactress Marjorie White, in Philadelphia, of severe injuries suffered in an auto crash; Cinemactress Pola Negri, in Santa Monica, Calif., following a critical operation for an intestinal obstruction; Senator Tasker Lowndes Oddie of Nevada, of a broken collarbone suffered during his morning canter, when his mount stumbled and fell on him; Biographer Giles Lytton Strachey, of paratyphoid fever; Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, British statesman, of bruises and a slight case of pleurisy contracted after he was struck by an automobile last fortnight (TIME, Dec. 21). His nose and forehead bandaged, Statesman Churchill left the hospital in a wheelchair after having received Mario Contasino, unemployed youth who ran him down through no fault of his. To Driver Contasino, who had called daily to inquire of his condition, Statesman Churchill autographed and presented his latest work, The Unknown War.
* Marie by slowly pouring a liqueur glass of absinthe over a lump of sugar into a tumbler of water.
*Thus was heightened a longtime friendship between Senator Reed and Mrs. Donnelly, who attended the 1928 Democratic National Convention to help boom him for President. Her rise to prominence began with small scale experiments in selling a type of housedress ("Nelly Don") which she had designed. Now she heads the Donnelly Garment Co. which has grossed as high as $3,750,000 in a year.