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Denis Percy Stewart Conan Doyle, brother of Adrian, announced in Los Angeles that he would soon return to England, stand for election to Parliament. A spiritualist like his father, Denis also made his periodical report that he.was still chatting with Sir Arthur from time to time.
Out of the Past
James Eli Watson, oratorical, jowl-shaking Republican Senator for 17 years before 1933, was back home in Indiana for his 80th birthday, greeted the press with: "Sit down and I'll tell you 100 lies in 50 minutes." He is positively "not a candidate for office . . . just an old, broken-down number out on the scrap heap with no ambition except to help my party."
Bert Acosta, 50, famed transatlantic flyer of 1927, was arrested for sleeping in a Bronx subway station. Charged with disorderly conduct, he got a suspended sentence when he pleaded guilty.
Earl Browder, No. 1 U.S. Communist, brought a libel suit against the Philadelphia Record, which had called him a "convicted perjurer." Convicted three years ago of obtaining a passport by misrepresentation and fraud, he demanded $100,000 damages, as a "person of good fame, name, credit and reputation."
Scholars
Herbert George Wells at 77 won a Doctorate of Science at London University as an "external student." His thesis: "Personality of the Mesozoics."
Lieut. General Mark W. Clark was given an honorary degree by the University of Naples, which decided that he was a Doctor of Political Sciences.