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

Harold Fowler McCormick, Chicago farm machinery man, and his sister Mrs. Anita McCormick Elaine, testified in Santa Barbara, Cal., about the mental health and care of their brother, Stanley McCormick, whose wife was trying to change his doctor and oust the brother and sister as co-executors of his $50,000,000 estate. Said Mr. McCormick: "Stanley's mind has always been unimpaired but there has been an interruption between the processes of his mind . . . tremendous mental conflict." He told how he once took his mother, the late Mrs. Cyrus McCormick Sr., to a hill hard by the Santa Barbara estate where his brother was secluded, so that she could look at her son through field glasses.

Mrs. Edith Rockefeller McCormick, divorced wife of Harold Fowler McCormick, published the final number of her love song cycle (music by Mrs. Eleanor Everest Freer). Prior numbers were entitled "How Can We Know?" and "I Write Not to Thee, Dearest." The last one was "Love." Excerpt:

Love is not a mendicant Who goes from door to door,

And asks for food and shelter Just to ask for more and more.

Edward Nash Hurley* of Chicago, wartime chairman of U. S. Shipping Board, in a letter to Georges Theunis of Belgium. President of International Chamber of Commerce, pointed the path to everlasting peace. Said he: "If the leaders of the great industries which own, control, transport, refine and fabricate the 'key commodities' would not sell them to any actual or prospective belligerent, politicians would hesitate before precipitating wars. . . . There are two or three dozen men in the world today who could meet and form a gentleman's agreement." Some of the men and commodities he then mentioned:

Oil. Walter C. Teagle, U. S.; Sir Henri Deterding, England.

Copper. John D. Ryan, U. S.; M. E. Franque, Belgium.

Rubber. Harvey Firestone, U. S.; H. Eric Miller, England.

Steel. Charles M. Schwab, U. S.; James A. Campbell, U. S.; Sir Hugh Bell, England; Dr. Albert Voegler, Germany; Jacques Van Hoegarden, Belgium.

Chemicals. Pierre S. du Pont, U. S.; M. Donat Agache, France.

Electrical Apparatus. Owen D. Young, U. S.; Andrew Wells Robinson, U. S.

Samuel Insull of Chicago, potent public utilitarian, in an address before several hundred U. S. reserve officers, traced the trail to inevitable war. Said he: "I will tell you that it is highly possible for war to come. Oh, it may not come in my time; I am getting near the end. But I am thinking of the men 20 years younger than myself [he is 70]. . . . Who would not have laughed at a man that 20 years ago had attempted to picture to the world the terrible orgy of slaughter of 1914-18? . . . It may not even come from without--who knows? I can remember . . . that I sat with my father in our home in a little town in England and heard him read in the newspaper about the fall of Richmond. . . . One of the great troubles with our young people today is their lack of respect for authority and law. . . . They want to kiss their way through life."

Walter Evans Edge, new Ambassador to France, was twitted at a send-off luncheon given to him by the New York Advertising Club, about nocturnal fun he had had in Paris in the past. Replied he, with a sidelong glance at his beauteous young second wife: "Although I will now be more restricted, they cannot rob me of my memories!"

The Warner Brothers (Harry, Albert, Jack), cinema tycoons, announced that they would build a $2,200,000 theatre-&-hotel ("The Warner") in Youngstown, Ohio, where once they mended bicycles, butchered meat, ran billiard halls.

William Tatem Tilden II, famed U.S. tennis racqueteer, began a fortnight engagement as a cabaret entertainer in London's gaudy Trocadero Restaurant

Robert Maynard Hutchins of the University of Chicago, youngest big-college president, went to Montclair, N. J. There, in the barn of Nicholas ("Nick") Roberts (Yale '01). President of S. W. Straus & Co. (brokers), surrounded by the football team, coaching staff and many a hardy Old Yaleman, he was given the Montclair Yale Alumni Association Bowl, awarded annually to an alumnus who has ''won his Y in life." A cup for the undergraduate who has "won his scholastic Y" was awarded for the first time, to Senior Saunders MacLane, whose academic record (96% average) has never been equalled at New Haven.

Edsel Bryant Ford's new $400,000 yacht Sialia, launched last month (TIME, Nov. 25), went aground in a gale on Hen & Chicken's Reef off Buzzards Bay. Mass. After the crew of 18 was saved, a man was drowned trying to land an insurance agent on the wreck.

Robert Stanley Dollar, president of Dollar Steamship Line, arrived in Manhattan from a globe-trot with his family, had to pay $11,489.26 in duties & fines on undeclared, foreign-bought wearables. Said he: "I always understood that clothes purchased abroad and worn by the purchaser before returning . . . were not dutiable. . . . It seems I was wrong. . . . I have nothing to conceal."

James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney, arrived home from his 14-month honeymoon in Europe. Of hulking Boxer Primo Carnera said he: "Why, he has the biggest feet [size 21 1/2] I've ever seen. He has ankles like an elephant. I met him in a hotel abroad and couldn't help noticing those feet in the carpet slippers. Gracious!"

*Not to be confused with Patrick Jay Hurley of Tulsa--cowboy, soldier, lawyer, orator, last week appointed Secretary of War.

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