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

It became known that before he left Buenos Aires, on his South American junket, with his brother, Prince George of England found his bedroom at the British Embassy ransacked. Personal jewelry of "considerable value" had been stolen. Police tracked down the thief, discovered him to be a prominent young Argentine, who had consorted with the Princes a great deal during their visit. His name was not divulged. The jewelry was recovered.

Philosopher Paul Elmer More (Shelburne Essays), famed "humanist," departed for the University of Glasgow to receive an honorary LL. D. In his cabin baggage were two large crates, full to the brim with modern detective fiction.

Francis Warren Pershing, son of General John Joseph Pershing: 1) As part of his Yale industrial engineering course stoked a Pennsylvania Railroad locomotive between Altoona and Gallitzin, Pa.; 2) was appointed floor-manager of Yale's senior promenade next June.

Having no intention of landing in England, whence he has been twice barred on grounds of moral turpitude, Harry Kendall Thaw rode into Southampton on the S. S. Europa. A delegation of immigration authorities boarded the ship, marched up to Mr. Thaw, told him he might not set foot on shore. Said he: "I am going to Germany, which is much more interesting, and after that to Czechoslovakia, where I shall be a guest of my friend, President Masaryk."

The present Mrs. Sinclair Lewis declared: "Babbitt, romanticizing his business, is merely a comic and pathetic figure, but his female counterpart, the high-powered business woman, is the most terrifying figure that has ever emerged on any scene. Men may be forgiven . . . but women, with their sounder biological instincts, should know . . . that that's not life."

When frightened spectators and officials of an automobile race at Brooklands, England reached Sir Malcolm Campbell after he had swerved roaringly out of the track, he gasped: "I was braking, preparatory to taking a turn, and suddenly I heard a terrific crash and the front wheels locked. I was doing well over 100 m. p. h. and I don't know how I held the car on the track. Somehow I managed to pull her in. It was a ghastly experience!"

While Restaurateur Emilio Scala of

London was still being congratulated on having drawn the Irish Hospital Sweepstakes ticket on Race Horse Grakle, winner of the Grand National (TIME, April 6). Scala's cousin Mateo Constantino and one Antonio Apicella, London hairdressers, produced a written contract and brought suit for two-thirds of Scala's prize of $1,772,720. An Irish judge granted an injunction tying up the money pending a hearing in Dublin High Court this week.

Detroiters impanelled on a Recorder's Court jury included Motormen Frederic John ("Bodies") Fisher, President William Joseph McAneeny of Hudson Motors, Rhymester Edgar Albert ("Eddie") Guest.

Colyumist Heywood Broun of the New-York World-Telegram, as part of his daily stint, related a story which "a priest told me of Cardinal Gibbons. . . . When he returned from Rome a newspaper friend asked him: 'Now that you have been to the Vatican do you still believe in the infallibility of the Pope?' and Cardinal Gibbons smiled and said : 'Well, he called me Jibbons.' " The identical story had been told by Morgan Partner Thomas William Lamont at last fortnight's Academy of Political Science dinner for Walter Lippmann (TIME, March 30). At that dinner, Colyumist Broun sat near the speakers' table. Reminded of this, honest Colyumist Broun cried: "Oh, I must have got it from him! ... I couldn't remember." At White Plains, N. Y. James Edward ("Andy") Gump, 24, asked and was granted a court order changing his surname to Gale because, said he, the name "Gump" had a dictionary meaning of "simpleton," had been "widely advertised by cartoonists" as that of "a funny-faced comedian," and that by bearing it he had "gradually developed an inferiority complex." Next day "Andy" Gale's father appeared before the judge to ask the order be voided. He said his son's wife, not his son's feelings, had prompted the change. He cried: "Gump is a very honorable name in the part of Pennsylvania from which we come!"

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