Monday, Nov. 09, 1931

"Names make news." Last week these names made this news:

The following story became public last week: Three months ago an Isotta-Fraschini salesman was twiddling his thumbs in the company's swank Manhattan showroom. An Isotta-Fraschini is not sold every day. A passerby stopped, peered in. When he came in and started inquiring about the one he liked, the salesman was courteous. When he pulled out a checkbook, asked for a pen, the salesman was startled. When he wrote out a check for $18,500, departed leaving directions that the car be sent to the New York Athletic Club, the salesman looked at the check, was amazed. The signatory was BELIEVE IT OR NOT, INC., Robert L. Ripley, pres.

Returning to the U. S. after 18 years' absence, Mrs. Maurice Bennett ("Lefty") Flynn, youngest sister Norah of Lady (Nancy Langhorne) Astor, found she might have to wait four years for papers of U. S. citizenship, which she lost when she married Major Paul Phipps in 1909. Said she: "Fancy being born in Virginia and having to wait that long!"

At the opening of Chicago's Onwentsia Hunt, James Simpson Jr., son of the board chairman of Marshall Field & Co., fell, broke his leg.

The U. S. gunboat Sacramento sailed from Cocos Island to Balboz, C. Z. with three castaways discovered last fortnight by Julius Fleischmann (TIME, Nov. 2), who sailed away in the opposite direction on his yacht Camargo. The castaways-- Elmer J. Palliser, Paul Stackwick, Gordon Brawner--were in fair health, but fat and flabby from their six-month diet of coconuts and wild hog.

In the course of an economy program, the Duke of Westminster sold his four-masted 203-ft. yacht Flying Cloud to Nelson B, Warden of Philadelphia.

Slowly recovering from pernicious anemia Ring W. Lardner was removed from hospital to home. In the course of a press interview, said he: "The prince of all bad writers is Dreiser. He takes a big subject, but so far as handling it and writing it--why, one of my children could do better." Author Lardner has four children, all boys. Last summer the youngest, David Ellis Lardner, 10, was "humorous editor" of High Tide, juvenile newspaper of East Hampton, L. I. Richard Lardner Tobin, nephew, is managing editor of the Daily at the University of Michigan (TIME, Oct. 19).

In a lonely cabin on Paradise Lake near Seattle, police found E. V. Maltby, onetime wealthy vice president & general manager of the defunct Rural Grain Co. of Chicago. He had grown a beard, stocked the cabin with provisions. He was held in Seattle jail for Chicago authorities on an indictment charging nine violations of the Grain Futures Act.

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