"Names make news." Last week the following names made the following news: "One can imagine our shaggy ancestors fighting fiercely with other wild savages or can picture them chasing through the dark underbrush after an animal that they hoped to broil over their fires that evening for dinner. Then, in the protection of the cave, after the crude meal, they played j games with polished bones and round stones, and yelled with delight or rolled upon the ground with laughter and wild glee. Sometimes, in the excitement, they would forget that they were playing, and would begin to fight. There would be terrific pandemonium, and the embers of 1 the camp fire would be scattered and the game forgotten. "The play spirit has endured. . . ." Helen Wills, world's No. 1 lady tennis-player, in the Saturday Evening Post. Anna May Wong, Chinese-American cinemactress, said: "I see no reason why Chinese and English people should not kiss on the screen, even though I prefer not to." British censors had snipped out the kisses between her and her British leading man in The Road to Dishonor. Mrs. Robert Maynard Hutchins, wife of the newly inducted President of the University of Chicago (TIME, Nov. 25), had her appendix out in Chicago. Mrs. Theodore Hoover, sister-in-law of President Hoover, had her appendix out in Palo Alto, Calif. Crown Prince Christian Frederik of Denmark, visiting London, had an abscess in his throat lanced, was unable to go to Sandringham to see his second cousins George V & Queen Mary. Col. & Mrs, Charles Augustus Lindbergh's Arizona air-explorations were told of in the December World's Work (non- fiction monthly) by one Edward Moffat Weyer Jr. The story: When the Weyer archaeological party was isolated in an Arizona canyon by floods last July, a plane droned to rest on the dangerously rough mesa above them. A figure with a bundle clambered down the canyon wall. The figure was Col. Lindbergh; the bundle, his wife. Said he: "How are you fixed for grub? ... Er ... you'll excuse me. this is Mrs, Lindbergh--it's for her." Later the Lindberghs and hosts explored cliff-dwelling ruins to which Lindbergh led the way, having discovered from, the air a hitherto unknown path. Last weekend Col. Lindbergh paid a visit to Professor Robert Hutchings Goddard of Clark University (Worcester, Mass.) to learn more about high altitude rocket experiments (TIME. July 29). Said Informaniac Walter Winchell in the New York Mirror: "Of course it will be vigorously denied, but the Col. Chas. A. Lindberghs (Anne Morrow) anticipate a blessed event." General John Joseph Pershing, returning to the U. S. from France after eight months of work for the Battle Monuments Commission, said that he contemplated writing his memoirs. Mr. & Mrs. Hiram Edward Manville (asbestos) sailed for Sweden on their new $1,000,000 yacht Hi-Esmaro with the family physician, Dr. Horace Eddy Robinson, to visit their daughter, Estelle, Countess Bernadotte, wife of King Gustav's nephew. Purpose: to be on hand at the prospective birth of a grandchild. Manhattanites were talking about Raymond Duncan, eldest brother of the late Danseuse Isadora Duncan.-- He arrived in their midst as Paris has known him for years--clad as an ancient Greek. Manhattan pedestrians gaped at his homespun toga, his sandals, his long-flowing, fillet-bound locks. Apostle of "bringing art into daily life," he drapes dancing girls in his classic fabrics, shows them static Periclean dance steps, tells them that the world's post-Greek culture is spurious. The Duncanian cult in Paris is called Artistes et Artisans, a group consecrated to painting, dancing, weaving, cabinet making, singing, in ever-conscious imitation of archaic Greece. A famed Raymond Duncan exploit was painting a picture entitled "Maternity" which was considered too "powerful" to hang even at the Independent Artists Exhibit. He hired a hall, showed it privately, took admissions until suppressed. Currently he is searching in Manhattan for kindred spirits, sitting gravely at arty parties telling startled ladies they should cast off the body's bonds, robe like him and the Greeks.

John H. Trumbull, Connecticut's air-minded Governor, last week talked to the press about his new son-in-law, John Coolidge. Said he: "He is not yet a pilot but I hope he soon will be." Commented Mrs. Florence Trumbull Coolidge: "I think there must be some misunderstanding ... John has never been up."

--Another Duncan brother, Augustin, has a minor part in A Ledge, new Broadway play (see p. 32).

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