Had they been interviewed, some people who figured in last week's news might have related certain of their doings as follows:

Charles Evans Hughes: "I called on Premier Poincare last week and emerged just as Secretary Mellon entered his antechamber. Mr. Mellon and I chatted for a moment and swopped friendly boasts about how each of us had recently taken a ten-mile walk to keep fit. Frenchmen who avoid walking whenever possible, were intrigued, the more so as my age is 64 and Mr. Mellon's 72.

George V, R. I.: "My importance as sovereign and arbiter elegantarium was emphasized again last week when the press of the world took front page notice of the fact that I was seen in Scotland wearing my trousers creased down the front instead of at the side as is my usual wont. Speculation is rife as to whether I will resume my side creases on returning to London."

Mary Garden, prima donna of the Chicago Civic Opera: "As I lay naked on pillows in my rowboat one morning last week, out on the Mediterranean from my villa at Antibes, France--a daily practice with me, to enjoy the sun's curative rays--i fell asleep, a wide straw hat on my head, my legs dangling overboard into the water. I awoke, startled by furtive splashing near my lonely boat. To my horror, two huge sharks were circling about, churning the water, swirling greedily. I drew in my legs. I recalled that a bather near Genoa had been eaten alive by sharks last month. I rowed for shore. The brutes charged me many times but I got to safety, spread a warning."

President Mustafa Kemal Pasha of Turkey: "I continued last week to exterminate my enemies. Abdul Kadir Bey, one time Governor of Angora, was hanged during the week for participating in a plot to assassinate me which I am thought to have trumped up. To date, 18 of my political enemies have been disposed of by hanging through this strategem (TIME, Sept. 6)."

Frank R. Hedley, president-manager of the Interborough Rapid Transit Co., New York: "An object of the Interborough Bulletin, my company's 'family magazine,' is to publish the name of each of my 18,000 employes at least once per annum. It makes for good will; we are sure the employes like it. The Bulletin publishes as many employes' pictures as possible, too, with jolly titles like 'Girls, Take Notice,' 'Loves the Interborough, 'Faithful Employes,' 'Well, Well, Well,' 'All Smiles.' Last week, William Clark, Negro, though employed by us indirectly (through a contractor), got a chance to be mentioned in the Bulletin. He was working 30 ft. underground on our new Eighth Avenue subway (the excavations for which unfortunately blocked fire engines from a blazing tenement last week) when he sank deeper and deeper into a huge sand bin. Walter Strong saw Mr. Clark's head disappear under the sand. With great presence of mind, Mr. Strong shoved a pipe down to Mr. Clark, who was thus enabled to breathe until dug out an hour and a quarter later."

Otto Kahn, Manhattan financier-art patron: "I addressed a luncheon of Canadian art exhibition directors, at Toronto, and the press said my speech 'fairly sparkled with epigrams.' These were some of the epigrams quoted: 'If you love art, you are not necessarily a sissy.' 'Art is a true league of nations. It speaks a language that is known to all the peoples.' 'Nothing is more indigestible than suppressed emotions.' 'We all need to give an airing to our souls once in a while.' 'A sluggish soul is just as bad as a sluggish liver.' 'A soil of our inner being should be as fertile as the lands on which the farmers work.' "

Matthew S. Sloan, president of the Brooklyn Edison Co.: "My company last week began operating the largest steam driven electric generator in the world. Costing over a million, capable of developing 80,000 kilowatts, or 125,000 horsepower, its world's largest steam condenser has 80,000 sq. ft. of condensing surface. Counting units already in operation, our generators now require 576 million gallons of water daily, for cooling and for steam, which is more than the daily water consumption of all Manhattan and the Bronx combined. . . . During the week, the General Electric Co. announced that within 18 months it will complete a steam-driven generator about three times as big as our new one, a 208,000-kilowatt turbine, capable of pulling 160 loaded express trains or of operating 100 Panama Canals, to light up Indiana."

Crown Prince Gustav Adolf of Sweden: "I arrived with my wife, Princess Louise, at Yokohama last week on board the Siberia Maru from Honolulu. Cheered by a huge crowd, we left by special train for Tokyo and were installed there amid pomp in the Kasumigaseki Palace."

Rosamond Pinchot, daughter, actress: "I am no longer interested in the drama. Since the close of The Miracle, I have been miscast so often that I doubt whether I shall ever play again. . . . I left for California with $150, to have a vacation and I have been picking cherries, under an assumed name. Social activities bore me and I am interested only in finding serious work to do. As yet I have no idea what it will be."

Mrs. William Randolph Hearst: "I last week bought a 12-story office building in West 57th Street, a section of Manhattan vulgarly called 'lingerie row,' where my shrewd publisher-husband and his wealthy employe, Editor Arthur Brisbane, already have large holdings. The price of my purchase was not announced. Rents from this building have totaled some $200,000 per annum."

Convicts Nathan F. Leopold and Richard Loeb: "To us in Joliet Prison, where we have been since 1924, came word that a newly appointed supervisor of paroles in Illinois had found that we might be eligible for release in 1935. The loophole: when Judge Caverly sentenced us to 99 years for kidnaping Bobby Franks, and to life for murdering him, he neglected to say whether these sentences should be concurrent or consecutive. Illinois law gives the convict the benefit of the doubt in such cases of negligence. Our sentences are regarded as concurrent. We must, however, serve the longer of the two sentences. That is another law. But it must be decided which is longer, life or 99 years. If 99 years is decided on, we can get out in 1959, still in our 50's. If life is decided on, we can--by behaving ourselves in here--get out among people again in eleven years and three months from when we came in. We would then be active young men in our early 30[s. Mr. Clabaugh, the parole man, said we were two of the most vicious criminals he ever handled. He wanted it understood that we would serve 'the very maximum of years legally possible' as long as he had anything to do with it."

Premier Baldwin of Great Britain : "I regaled friends who attended my 59th birthday party in London last week with an anecdote: 'On the day I was born, our cook wrapped me in a blanket, and, to insure I should rise in life, she carried me up the stairs to the top of the house, and there stood on a chair in the attic, and held me up in the air as high as she could.'"

Major-General Leonard Wood, Governor General of the Philippines: "My son Osborne, who lately caused talk by making $800,000 speculating in the stock market, who more lately was reported 'broke' after extravagances in Paris, and who for the past two months has been working as a $4 day laborer, No. 40022, for the Hercules Corporation, (refrigerators) in Evansville, Ind. and, according to his landlady, leading a quiet life, was last week taken from his rooming house to an Evansville hospital suffering from a serious ailment. Asked what this ailment was, the doctor said: 'There are certain cases in the medical profession where we do not wish to make a diagnosis public.'"

Jiddu Krishnamurti, "living vehicle of the Great Teacher," Hindu leader of Theosophy: "Besieged by reporters in Chicago, I replied that yes, of course, Rudolph Valentino, cinema sheik, was not dead. His soul, I said, was alive and could be reached by those on the proper spiritual plane. 'Valentino will come back to this earth,' said I, 'perhaps at once, in another physical cast. If he was beautiful, it was his soul and it lives, so why all this mourning? . . . Next to the chase for money, the western world magnifies its sex life far out of proportion and thinks of these things when thoughts should be of the spirit.'"

Benny Leonard, onetime undefeated lightweight champion of the world: "Of course, I don't fight any more. I've made lots of money and own real estate. Besides, I promised my mother I would never enter the ring again. And in the Sept. 4 issue of Collier's, I okayed an interview telling all about my most thrilling fights and how I finally came through all 200 of them with my eyes and ears normal. But I was lucky and skillful and don't think much of boxing as a manly art. Said I, 'Unless you're a champion or a near-champion, it's the dirtiest game in the world.' "