"Names make news." Last week these names made this news:
To make an after-dinner speech at a banquet of the United Ancient Order of Druids (British social order) one sweltering London night up rose walrus-mustached, bespectacled Charles Richard John ("Sunny") Spencer-Churchill, Duke of Marlborough (Baron Spencer, Earl of Sunderland, Baron Churchill, Earl of Marlborough, Marquis of Blandford, Prince of the Holy Roman Empire and divorced husband of Consuelo Vanderbilt). He had noticed, remarked His Grace, that his confreres were squirming in black coats, swabbing their necks under hard collars. That was regrettable. He had better sense. To the consternation of every Druid, the Duke had come to the banquet clad in white linen trousers, soft shirt & collar.
In Brussels, violin-playing U. S. Ambassador Dave Hennen Morris presented his credentials to King Albert, had a chat with Queen Elisabeth, a fellow-fiddler. Few days before L'Eventail, Brussels socialite weekly, had commented: "Mr. Morris on getting off the train that brought him to Brussels was seen to be carrying a violin case. Everyone noticed it and everyone was favorably impressed. This diplomat is a musician and he must be passionately fond of music to carry his violin himself. We like diplomats who are artists."
Motoring down to his presidential office in Atlanta's First National Bank (largest in the Southeast), John King Ottley, 65, saw a fruit peddler to whom he had often given a lift to town. This time the peddler flourished a pistol, took the banker for a ride to the country, left him in charge of a 17-year-old boy armed with a blackjack. It took Banker Ottley only a few minutes to persuade the boy to release him, accompany him to nearby Suwanee, lead a posse to the fruit peddler's hideout.
Kidnapped for $250,000 ransom was John J. O'Connell Jr., 24, nephew of Albany County, N. Y., Democratic Bosses Edward J. and Daniel P, O'ConnelL
News of the kidnapping was withheld for four days while futile efforts were made to locate the 225-pound athlete through various racetrack touts and sporting men who were named as satisfactory intermediaries in a coded newspaper advertisement.
In Manhattan, Stanislaus Zbyszko,
bull-necked onetime heavyweight wrestling champion, filed a petition in bankruptcy listing assets of $256. His $26,869 liabilities included an $18,243 judgment for breach of promise to one Gladys Buszek.
In Manhattan Primo Camera, new
heavyweight boxing champion who had filed as a bankrupt with liabilities including a $14,390 breach of promise judgment to a London waitress, testified that he possessed only an automobile, $631 cash. Asked about his profits from the Sharkey fight, he grunted: "No see that money."