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

President von Hindenburg of Germany: "Berlin coiffeurs are attempting to launch the 'Hindenburg bob,' an exaggerated 'shingle,' imitative of my short bristling pompadour. I made known unofficially last week my disapproval of this new 'bob.' Docile German modistes at once clapped wigs upon such of their mannequins as had adopted it."

Alfonso, Prince of the Austurias, eldest son of King Alfonso XIII of Spain: "The motor car in which I was riding with my tutor near San Sebastian last week collided with a motor truck and I escaped injury as by a miracle. My health has been reported 'indifferent' for so long that I am suspected of suffering from some permanent disorder and there is talk of offering the succession to someone else. If I am passed over it is expected that a similar fate will overtake my father's second son, Prince Jaime, for he is almost stone deaf. In that case our father's third son, Prince Juan, would probably be designated heir apparent."

Maria Guglielmi, sister of the late Rudolph Valentino: "My brother left an estate of more than $1,000,000 which will be divided equally between myself, my other brother, Alberto, who is now in Hollywood, and the aunt of Winifred Shaughnessy Hudnut, Mrs. Teresa Werner, who took such motherly care of Rudolph after Winifred had divorced him last year. Winifred (also known professionally as Natacha Rambova) was bequeathed the sum of $1. The bulk of Rudolph's estate will come from his earnings in his last two films, The Eagle and The Son of the Sheik. However, there are other things: his two homes, three Isotta Frachini cars, three other automobiles, the yacht Phoenix, duelling pistols and medieval arms, 40 suits, 50 pairs of shoes, 300 neckties, 1,000 pairs of socks."

Roger W. Babson, statistician: "To impress upon the 13th annual National Business Conference, which met as my guests at Wellesley Hills, Mass., the dangers of overextending the instalment business, I said, that 'a distinct recession in business and possibly a panic within two or three years would not be surprising.'"

Harry Mulford Jewett, president Paige-Detroit Motor Car Co.: "I made a speech to 1,500 of my Jewett and Paige dealers at an elaborate dinner in the grand ballroom of the Book Cadillac Hotel, Detroit. Said I: 'The new Paige is a powerful brute. You can drive it right through hell and you can't make it heat up.'"

Henry Ford, Detroit automobile manufacturer: "Researchers W. A. Noel and Rudolph Hellbach of the U. S. Department of Agriculture reported, in the magazine Power (weekly), that they had run one of the regulation motors made at my factory, on sweepings from a grain elevator. Dust particles suspended in air will oxidize with explosion rapidity just as gas particles do. The experimenters had replaced the carburetor of their Ford motor with an arrangement of valves, pipes and a small fan, feeding the grain-dust by hand. Ignition was by spark plugs as usual, the electric current being controlled slightly differently from our way. The explosions were 'ready and frequent.' Beginnings along this line of dust fuel for combustion engines were demonstrated at last year's Chemical Industries Exposition in Manhattan (TIME, Oct. 12). The original discovery was made when a grain elevator was once blown to the top of its shaft by the spontaneous combustion of dust at the bottom. The detail to be solved before automobiles may run on chaff: a continuous, measured fuel-feed system. Many people were struck by the fact that only last week the Foos Gas Engine Co. of Springfield, Ohio, announced a small new Diesel engine that could run with almost any oil for fuel, even buttermilk (TIME, Sept. 13)."