"Names make news." Last week the following names made the following news:

Robert L. Ripley, famed Manhattan cartoonist (Believe It Or Not) returned to Manhattan last week after two months touring Central America in search of incredible subjects for Ripley cartoons. Ripley discoveries (believe them or not): A fountain of "blood" in Honduras which lures and deceives insects, buzzards, vampire bats; a volcanic crater which brimmed with rainwater, burst under the pressure, deluged the countryside; bamboo which grows 1 ft. 8 in. daily.

Edward of Wales once said: "The best friendship, whether individual or international, is that found on the field of sport." This sentiment will shortly be blazoned in the International Sportsmen's Club in London, which was opened last week. The clubhouse is a famed Mayfair mansion, has been equipped with pools, rinks, courts, gymnasiums. More than 1,000 sportsmen and sportswomen from 29 nations are already members. Intended by the founders is the encouragement of international peace as well as perspiration. Among U. S. members: Louis E. Stoddard, Harry Payne Whitney, Clarence Hungerford Mackay, Percy Avery Rockefeller.

Ileana, gracious Princess of Rumania, about whom many marital rumors have stirred and been stilled, said last week: "It is not easy for a girl to get married today even if she is a Princess." This she said to a Uniate bishop at a garden party, adding, "I will stay until someone comes to take me away."

Prince Abdul Kadir, son of the late last Sultan of Turkey, earns $20 a week in a gypsy orchestra in Budapest, lives in the ghetto with his 20-year-old wife and six children by onetime spouses. Last week he sued the British Government and the Turkish National Oil Development Co. for $50,000,000 as compensation for confiscated crown lands in Mesopotamia and elsewhere. His lawyer: Alexandre Miller-and, onetime President of France.

General Erich Ludendorff, famed war lord now in his dotage, heard last week that a German barmaid and a plumber's apprentice had been arrested in the Italian Tyrol. The General was glad. Reason: He, with others, had been swindled to the extent of $600,000 by the pair, barmaid and plumber, who had sought the money to finance a scheme. The scheme: To manufacture gold.

Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone, famed Chicago gangman. now under one year's sentence in the Philadelphia County Prison for toting shooting irons, was last week pitching swift inshoots and outcurves on a jail baseball team. Asked for a contribution to the Philadelphia Children's Hospital, he said: "A mere $250 contribution to a hospital? Nothing doing. It'll be $1,000 or nothing. . . . I've got a kid* myself." $1,000 it was.

W. R. Burnett, author of Little Caesar, novel of Chicago gangland chosen by the Literary Guild for June, was in Manhattan last week. Said he: "Crime, the Chicago brand at least ... is an indication of vitality. . . . Chicago is a much drier city than New York. That's probably why there's so much rivalry between the bootlegging gangs, which explains nearly all the violent crimes you hear so much about in Chicago. . . . New York is different. Here so much liquor is consumed that there's plenty of business for everybody."

Aged Clarence Darrow debated prohibition in Washington, prior to sailing to Bad Nauheim, Germany, for heart-trouble cure.* His opponent was Dr. Clarence True Wilson (Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals). Lawyer Darrow fascinated his audience by such outbursts as "Methodists are not good Christians. . . . They rule by hate-- not love. Their methods are assassination, starvation, intimidation, preferably assassination. . . . "

Dr. Wilson doesn't want a drink. If he spent a nickel for a schoonei of beer . . . he wasted his money. But I didn't waste mine."

When Preacher Wilson got up to reply, the audience began to leave. Vexed, he called for fair play, shouted that prohibition was a "modern miracle," assailed "Drunken England."

Cinemactor Adolphe Menjou was dinner guest in Manhattan last week of the Men's Hat Trade and Allied Industries. The 600 celebrants were bidden to wear dinner coats. On the invitations appeared the warning: "The correct straw hat to wear with a dinner coat is a china split yacht." Men wise in the intricacies of hat-making, hat-selling (TIME, May 27) gave learned speeches. Cinemactor Menjou, elegantly representing the hatted classes, declared that no properly dressed man would think of owning less than a dozen hats. He himself, epitome of grooming, owned 22, had brought them all to the dinner. These he put on, one after another--felts, silks, straws, fibres. The hatmen rose in a vote of thanks.

Mae West, fat actress, was told to close Diamond Lil in Detroit last week because the play was "silly and stupid, holding no moral and teaching no lesson." Later Mayor John Christian Lodge relented, declared: "The show will be given a chance to revise itself."

John David, New York chain store clothier, laid the cornerstone of gala headquarters last week, gave dress prophecies. He envisioned men bare-legged from ankle to knee, wearing roomy shorts instead of trousers, porous and mesh materials, vivid sandals, formal attire of silk or satin knee breeches, cutaway coat, colored waistcoat, buckled shoes.

Algernon Sydney Frissell, 84, chairman of Manhattan's Fifth Avenue Bank, longtime (1885-1916) president, was bumped by an automobile last fortnight, knocked down, hospitalized.

Mrs. Alfred Emanuel Smith Jr. last week gave testimony which helped convict one Meyer Sussman, 20, of illegally entering her Manhattan apartment building, once as a bogus tailor's boy, once as a fake cleaner.

Ezra Cornell, grandson of University Founder Ezra Cornell (see p. 51) in San Rafael, Cal., last week, drove a golf ball, killed a cow, claimed a "birdie." Other reported golf incidents: in Warren, Ohio, Dr. E. D. Hoover holed in one on the third (195 yd.), his co-golfer George Jones followed him to the tee, holed in one, too; in Los Angeles, Francis Stevens Jr., defeated his father in the semi-finals of the State championship, thereby winning from father a seat in the Stock Exchange and permission to marry. Golfer Stevens Jr. did not, however, win the State championship.

Albert Einstein, able sailorman, took command last week of the mahogany-finished, auxiliary sailboat given him by friends on his 50th birthday (March 14). He will navigate the Havel river.

Senator Reed Smoot, of Utah, sugar-beet state, spoke as follows on the senate floor one day last week: "Ten years ago ... no manufacturer of tobacco products dared to offer nicotine as a substitute for wholesome foods,"* and demanded from the Senate a law to put tobacco and its products under Food & Drug Act regulations. If such a law passes, cigaret packages would be forced to show how much nicotine, or other drugs they contain and would not dare to exaggerate harmlessness claims. Also would Senator Reed force food manufacturers to tell in their advertisements what they now must tell only on their labels.

* Sonny. 9. * On the Paris, he had the cabin next to Count de Polignac.

* Referring to the Lucky Strike current slogan: "Reach for a Lucky instead of a Sweet.''