Adolfo Luque, pitcher for the Cincinnati National League Baseball Club: "Arriving in my native Havana, I was showered with flowers and hailed by the populace with shouts of ' Viva Luque!' "

Rev. William Wilkinson, "the Bishop of Wall Street": "For years I have conducted open-air services in the shadow of the great banking houses. Last week I was run down by a taxicab and was taken to the Broad Street Hospital."

Warren G. Harding, nephew of the late President Harding: " Officials at Ohio State University rubbed their eyes and stared at an enrollment card bearing my name. I entered the College of Commerce and Journalism. I have been pledged by Sigma Chi Fraternity."

Gertrude Atherton, novelist: " My book, Black Oxen, which revolves about the metamorphosis of an elderly woman into a frisky flapper through a rejuvenating glandular operation, was removed from the shelves of public libraries in Rochester, N. Y., by Mayor Van Zandt, at the request of the Women's Christian Temperance Union. The reason given was: ' Unfit for the minds of young people.'"

Ethel Barrymore: " Mrs. Fiske, Jane Cowl, Laurette Taylor and I were named by Heywood Broun in The New York World as the four leading women of the American theatre. He said that we will be succeeded by Katharine Cornell, Ann Harding, Helen Gahagan, Florence Johns."

John F. Hylan, Mayor of New York: " Still prostrate from a six-week illness which twice nearly proved fatal, I was conveyed from Saratoga Springs, N. Y., to my Brooklyn home. Said I: 'Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home.'"

Mrs. William Randolph Hearst: "My husband's newspapers announced that before leaving London for Paris I gave the biggest dinner-dance in London since Derby week."

Arthur Brisbane, Hearst editor: " At a meeting of the Brooklyn Advertising Club I declared that Brooklyn and Los Angeles are now competing for the honor of being the largest American community."

Jack Pickford, husband of Marilyn Miller, actress: "I was bequeathed half the estate of my late wife, Olive Thomas, cinema actress, who died of mercurial poisoning in 1920. I renounced my share of the estate in favor of Mrs. Lourina Van Kirk, mother of Miss Thomas, who will now receive $19,400.