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

Mrs. Woodrow Wilson: "Last week I re-entered society for the first time in five years, by attending a formal tea given for me in Washington by the Women's National Democratic Club. All my hostesses demonstrated their knowledge of politics to the satisfaction of Democratic party chieftains, who were also present. I wore a Paris hat, which has a rhinestone buckle, my double strand of pearls, falling almost to my waist, and a bouquet of lavender orchids, pinned to my right shoulder."

Guglielmo Marconi, radio engineer: "Last week I attended the British Institution of Civil Engineers in London; saw Sir Charles Parsons, inventor of the marine turbine, receive the famed Kelvin Gold Medal. I addressed the assemblage, saying in part: 'I hope you will not think me too visionary if I say that it may be possible that some day electric waves may be used for the transmission of power over moderate distances, if we succeed in perfecting devices for projecting the waves in parallel beams in such a manner as to minimize dispersion of the energy into space.' As all my auditors knew, I had already perfected such beam-projection for directive radio communication. Last fortnight I received a postoffice certificate for shortwave 'beam' stations connecting England and Canada (TIME, Nov. 1)."

Henry Ford: "Last week I was reported as saying to the school children at Gatlinburg, Tenn.: 'This is the first speech I ever made in my life. I am glad to be here and I am glad to see you children all so clean and healthy. That remark will cause some of my party to laugh, but I will explain it later. I thank you.' "

Arthur Capper, potent Senator from Kansas: "Besides my duties as a law maker, I bring joy into many a prairie home with my Cap per's Weekly, famed 16-page clean tabloid hodgepodge. My paper entertains with pictures of Mrs. Leo nard Kip Rhinelander, Iowa's champion grandma, mother and child hippopotami -- all sandwiched in between "sillygisms" and other little quips. Fortnight ago, one of my editors conceived this one: 'A great thunderclap shook the earth during a shower. "Wow," exclaimed a colored citizen standing under an awning. "Hell done laid a aig."' But my little paper is not facetious. Every week it contains a good solid column by Arthur Brisbane and an editorial by myself. When I do not have time to write one, I quote from my speeches. Here is a sample: 'The red communists and socialists are a far less imminent peril to the country than the complacent 100% Americans who sneer at prohibition in the constitution and connive in its nullification. . . "

Roald Amundsen, Polar pilgrim: "The trophies of my recent three year Arctic trip have been stolen from their packing cases, somewhere in transit through customs. The cases arrived at Oslo, Norway, via Seattle, containing only straw. I lost rare skins, a cinema camera with many feet of film, and many priceless scientific objects. I am thankful, however, that my scientific records escaped."

Morris Gest, famed theatrical producer: "Ill at my Manhattan home, I was cheered by report from Kansas City, Mo., of the great advance sale there for my revival of the spectacle play The Miracle now on tour. Advance receipts, $50,000, surpassed the records of Boston, Cincinnati, Chicago, St. Louis. 'Keep it up." I wrote to my representative in the field. 'News like you send me is better than any medicine.' "

William Edgar Borah, Senator from Idaho: "I was told last week that I may be descended from Martin Luther. One Katrina Borah was Luther's second wife, and my ancestors came from the part of Germany where she lived. I am considering purchasing a portrait of Katrina Luther, sent me for inspection by an admirer in Germany."

Dr. John T. Dorrance, President, Campbell Soup Co.: "My daughter, Elinor, 18, came to work in my factory last week. She started at peeling tomatoes for 30c an hour. Eventually she will work her way through our entire factory at Camden, N. J., and even into my own office. There my glass-topped desk ' is always clear and ready for action. It carries two inkwells, one containing red ink, the other black. To the right of the wells are some rubber stamps for marking papers. Further to the right is my electric time stamp for dating all letters and orders. Under the glass is" a map of the U. S. marked according to our sales territories. Every morning an attendant places under the glass a statistical summary of current business. Elinor has just returned from a year at the Sorbonne in Paris. She has the mentality to learn this business, which has been developing since 1869. We sell 350,000,000 cans of soups, and pork and beans, as well as of Franco-American food products yearly. Our advertisements have a unique place in U S. advertising; F. Wallis Armstrong's Philadelphia agency sees to it that we get the first advertising page, after text matter, of most huge-circulation magazines. Elinor knows this in general. She will know it in detail. There is the faint possibility that she will take charge of the business after my death, for I have no sons. My other daughters are married. Said I last week: 'I am proud of Elinor.'

Captain Alfred Lowenstein, Belgian billionaire: "I, who am sometimes reputed the richest man in Europe, was barred last week from entering the Bellevue Casino at Biarritz, France, because, though in evening dress myself, I was accompanied by a secretary not formally garbed. Doubling my fist I made contact with the loutish doorman's jaw, passed within. When he instituted suit against me for assault next day, I retained to defend me the celebrated barrister, onetime Finance Minister de Monzie of France. My extravagances include the ownership of a fleet of airplanes which bring to me, wherever I may be, fresh caviar from Russia, poulards from Toulouse and other delicacies. I travel habitually in an airplane fitted up as a business office. I inherited a large fortune from my father but have doubled it many times in Brazilian, Spanish and Mexican companies from which ] claim to have derived a total profit of one and a quarter billion Belgian francs ($35,000,000). My most famous attempted 'deal' was an offer to loan $100,000,000 to Belgium and France wherewith to stabilize their currencies. This fell through when it was discovered that I demanded personal control of the state finance of both countries during the stabilization period."

Gustav Stresemann, Foreign Minister of Germany: "A story went the rounds of Berlin last week that my ability to entertain lavishly on a salary of $6,400 a year is due to the kindly furtherance of my affairs by the multimillionaire Dr. von Kleefeld, my bachelor brother-in-law."

Alfred Salmon, rich and potent Chairman of J. Lyons & Co. Ltd. ("the Childs restaurants of Britain") and a director of Salmon and Gluckstein Ltd. (Empire famed tobacconists) : "I declared last week: 'Most young men lose great opportunities because they insist on congenial hours of work, enabling them to devote a good deal of time to sport; profitable businesses, such as hotel and restaurant-keeping are surrendered to foreigners by sport-ridden British youths who wish to be free to play games in the evening.' "

Capt. Ernest Maurras, S. S. Paris: "I piloted my ship to France for the last time last week. Myron T. Herrick, U. S. Ambassador to France, was one of my passengers. I have reached the age limit, 55, after 37 years of seafaring. To newsgatherers I would only say: 'I would rather not speak about it at all.' I shall recross the ocean this month as an ordinary passenger to attend the wedding of one of my children."

Elbridge Thomas Gerry, 89, lawyer, author of articles on cruelty to children, and owner of a private library of 30,000 volumes, grandson of U. S. Vice-President (1812-14) Elbridge Gerry: "A fallow deer jumped over a 10-foot iron paling in front of my Fifth Avenue house and stood, with vain eyes and excited flanks, before my door. Captured by Policemen and idlers, it was removed to the Central Park Zoo, which reported that it was not one of theirs."

Dr. Clarence Cook Little, biologist-president of the University of Michigan: "In an article for the current Scribner's on 'The Disappearing Personal Touch in Colleges' I made an analysis of the relation between intellectual leadership and religious thinking, the conclusion of which reminded many readers of the writings of Editor H. L. ('Hatrack') Mencken of the American Mercury, famed baiter of Methodists and Baptists. I considered the lawyers, medicos, scientists and writers listed under the letters A,M, and W in Who's Who, comparing the proportions of religious denominations thus represented with the relative sizes of religious groups in the whole U. S. population. I found that Unitarians, Episcopalians, Congregationalists, Universalists, Presbyterians led in Who's Who, leaving Baptists, Methodists, Roman Catholics far behind."