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

When Amy Johnson, England-to-Australia flyer (TIME, June 2), arrived in Perth on her triumphal tour of Australia's cities, a youth climbed aboard her motor from the cheering mob, tried to kiss her. She narrowed her eyes, drew back her hand, bloodied his nose.

Hearing rumors that Sir Thomas Johnstone Lipton was ill, would not be able to attend the America's Cup races in September, the New York World cabled the tea tycoon, received the same day a reply: "Many thanks. . . . Glad to say I am feeling in excellent health and am quite willing to take on Jack Dempsey. . . . Am looking forward with the greatest pleasure to another contest for the famous old mug and am confident the Shamrock will put up a good show."

George Herman ("Babe") Ruth announced that he would open in the autumn in Manhattan's famed Times Square district "Babe Ruth's Shop For Men, Inc.," featuring hats & caps. Said he: "I have never aimed to be a dude but I admire a well-dressed man."

Anthony Herman Gerhard Fokker, technical chief of General Motors Corp.'s aviation division, visiting at Roosevelt Field, L. I., ran across Miss Luba Phillips, a Russian pilot, the first woman he ever taught to fly. A reunion! They should have a fly together! Her monocoupe sport plane was on the sidelines. In they jumped with Designer Fokker at the controls, up and around they darted in joyful banks, slips, spins and curleycues, all beautifully executed, all less than 500 ft. from the ground. When they landed, a Department of Commerce inspector approached. "Where," he asked, "is your license?" Mr. Fokker, designer & builder of some 40,000 planes since 1911, possessor of license No. 3 of the Federation Aeronautique Internationale, had no U. S. license. His fine for unlicensed stunting: $500.

To Manhattan Rotarians, Actor William DeWolf Hopper, 72, famed for his readings of "Casey at the Bat" and for having had six wives, gave this reason for his long life: "I never smoked and never drank until I was twelve years of age."

Canvassers for the Miami Civic Tourist Club solicited Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone for a gift of $2,500 to swell a fund dedicated to community progress & betterment. News of the solicitation threw the club into a turmoil. President Clyde A. Epperson resigned; many board members followed his example. While this quarrel raged, a letter came from Capone's attorneys stating that no contribution would be forthcoming.

Mrs. Florence Sheftel Bache, divorced wife (1925) of Financier Jules Semon Bache of Manhattan, window-shopping in Paris, paused to gaze at a display of stones in a jeweler's show window. Her gaze turned quickly to intent scrutiny. She notified the police, soon recovered nearly all of $160,000 worth of jewels which were stolen from her when, in 1928 at Biarritz, she was chloroformed while napping in her hotel room.

Count Felix ("Sea-Devil") von Luckner weighed anchor on his four-masted schooner Mopelia, set sail for a two-month cruise in the West Indies. Aboard were 46 small boys whose parents are paying $1,500 per boy to have the Count instil in their children "a love of the sea." Aboard also were talking cinema photographers, newsmen, feature writers, Countess von Luckner. Fire in the galley delayed the Mopelia's start 24 hours.

Brother Joseph Dutton, 87, Trappist lay brother, Vermont-born Civil War veteran (private to captain in the 13th Wisconsin infantry), onetime Tennessee businessman, left his priestly post at the leper settlement on Molokai Island, Hawaii, for the first time in 44 years, went by boat to Honolulu for eye treatment. Though bent with age and practically blind, brother Joseph planned to return to Molokai by airplane. Said he: "Everything goes like a whiz these days, doesn't it? Just like a whiz. No, I regret nothing but the evil in the world and leprosy. A cure for that? I doubt it, doubt it very much."

Said Jesse Sweetser, onetime (1922) U. S. amateur golf champion: "Anyone who has spent as much time in locker rooms as I have knows that the 19th hole nowadays has stymied many an otherwise promising golfer."

The rickety story-and-a-half farmhouse in which was born John Davison Rockefeller was moved piece by piece from its foundation in Tioga county, N. Y., to Coney Island, New York fun park. Last year Mrs. Sarah S. Dennen, the owner, announced she would move the structure to Coney Island in one piece, movers to be trained by highway authorities lest their bridges be damaged. In dismantling the house workmen found "a little homespun vest for a child of four or five years, tucked deeply away in the corner of a bedroom." Mrs. Dennen turned it over to the Metropolitan Museum to determine its age.

Asa Yoelson ("Al Jolson"), mammy-singer, went to Aqueduct (L. I.) racetrack, bet on three horses, came away with $68,900.

"This is the life!' trilled buxom Marion Nevada Talley, onetime Metropolitan Opera soprano, as she plumped into the seat of a harvester combine and prepared to help bring in a wheat crop estimated at 200,000 bushels on her ranch at Colby, Kan.*

Rev. Herman Rashke, clergyman of Bremerhaven, Germany, arriving in the U. S., displayed a champagne bottle full of seawater dipped up in midocean, announced he would baptize his nephew with it to symbolize the amity between Germany and the U. S.

*Colby's Chamber of Commerce motto used to be: "Colby, The Taxless Town." Now it is: "Colby, The Home of Marion Talley."

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