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...Name-Dropper. In New Orleans, Mrs. Ora Baker became suspicious when her husband began calling her "Amanda" three days after their marriage, on checkup found that Amanda was his California wife...
...Quaker principles." His week's companions were not unanimously impressed by Hutchins. One observation: "[He] is an administrator . . . not an educational philosopher." Explained a senior: "Some of the class expected more than they got." But most agreed that Hutchins was no cautious pedant: "He's a name-dropper but not a punch-puller...
Among U.S. newspaper columnists, Leonard Lyons, 47, is the No. 1 name-dropper. Columnist Lyons bears his title proudly, and his chatter about celebrities in his column, "The Lyons Den," syndicated to 74 dailies, earns him $65,000 a year. This week Columnist Lyons explained why name-dropping makes a successful column. "Would you [like me to] tell you about a dinner party for my Uncle Max? . . . Nah, you really don't want to hear about that . . . The basic fact of newspaper life is that if any Uncle Max-unless it's Beerbohm, Beaverbrook or Factor-breaks...
...dateless or the name dropper, though, the first task was to scrutinize the convenient list, published by the Dally Dartmouth, of the name and Hanover address of each imparted date. That included over 1800 girls...
...Name Dropper. In Bridgeton, N.J., after being naturalized, Tinco Epeus Andringa Van Hylckama Vlieg, sometime of The Netherlands, got the court's permission to change his name to Tinco Epeus Andringa Van Hylckama...