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Harold Giles Hoffman, ponderous ex-Governor of New Jersey and a member of the Union Society for the Detection of Horse Thieves and Recovery of Stolen Horses and Other Property (seriously established in Colonial days), started his 1940 campaign for a comeback by riding to the annual luncheon of the society on a genuine horse-drawn stagecoach, brandish ing a brace of nickel-plated revolvers.
Durward Howes, 40, editor of America's Voting Men (Who's Who of Youth), published in Los Angeles his list of the outstanding ten young men of 1939, passed over John Steinbeck, 37, because The Grapes of Wrath was not "a worthy contribution to American literature." The ten: Philo Farnsworth (television), Lou Gehrig (heroism), Ernest Orlando Lawrence (Nobel Prize), Fulton Lewis Jr. (radio news commentator), William Samuel Paley (president CBS), Perry Pipkin (president U. S. Junior Chamber of Commerce), Philip Dunham Reed (General Electric board chairman), Governor Harold Stassen of Minnesota, Cinemactor Spencer Tracy, Herman B. Wells (president Indiana University).
Back to Manhattan from France, Anne Morgan, younger (67) spinster sister of Financier J. P. Morgan, was confronted by newsmen with the information that, according to the 1938-39 Who's Who, and a subsequent Satevepost story reference (taken from Who's Who), she had died on Aug. 25, 1936. Astringent Miss Morgan declared: "I am not dead and I am not prepared to die."