"Names make news." Last week these names made this news:

Concluding a six-week visit to the U. S. (TIME, May 2), Dr. Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman, "soul surgeon," set sail for England with 15 members of his "First Century Christian Fellowship." In Washington, said he, Herbert Hoover received his party. To one meeting went Supreme Court Justice Harlan Fiske Stone-- Present at a meeting in Dearborn, Mich, were Mr. & Mrs. Henry Ford. Soul Surgeon Buchman said that his movement had also interested Mrs. Thomas Alva Edison and Harvey Firestone.

General Plutarco Elias Calles, Minister of War and onetime President of Mexico, raced from Mexico City to Manhattan by special train with his second wife, Senora Leonor Llorente Calles, 26, suffering acutely from intercranial pressure induced either by a tumor or meningitis. In Manhattan the party was met by General Calles' son-in-law, Dr. Joseph Jordan Eller.

Lavish with Roosevelts was commencement time in the East. Archibald, son of the late great Theodore, was elected president of Phillips Andover Academy Alumni Association. His son Archibald Jr. won a lower school reading prize at Groton; his nephew Kermit Jr. the second Heard Poetry Prize. Franklin Delano Roosevelt (see p. 13), an old "Grottie," went up to Groton where his sons John A. and Franklin D. Jr. are enrolled.

A Form Prize-winner at Groton was Tudor Gardiner, son of Maine's Governor William Tudor Gardiner. At Andover Ring W. Lardner Jr., son of the taciturn humorist, won two English prizes, one honorable mention. Eugene O'Neill Jr. won a Greek philosophy prize, was named Ivy Orator at Yale. From Princeton were graduated (with high honors in modern languages) Mark Sullivan Jr., son of the political writer and (with high honors in art & archaeology) William Watt Blanton, son of Texas' Representative Thomas Lindsay Blanton. From Holy Cross College (Worcester, Mass.) was graduated Francis R., son of Tammany Leader John Francis Curry.

While Mrs. Josephine Diebitsch Peary, relict of North Pole-discovering Robert Edwin Peary, waved farewell, her daughter, Mrs. Marie Ahnighito ("Snow Baby") Peary Stafford, the latter's sons Peary, 14, and Edward, u, and Captain Robert Abram ("Bob") Bartlett, 56, sailed from Staten Island for Cape York, Greenland. Also aboard were a cow (named Dilwyn Beatrice) and two pigs for Captain Bob's mother at Brigus, Newfoundland. At Cape York the boys will help erect a 60-ft. limestone monument near where their mother was born in 1893, the world's most northerly born white child.

Harold, 20. son of Cinemactor Adolphe Menjou, was arrested on a murder charge in Los Angeles after his automobile overturned at 80 m. p. h. and killed his companion, a Miss Marjorie Gauthier, 16.

Funnyman Ed Wynn's son Frank ran aground his father's motorboat. All Wet, in the East River within sight of his Manhattan apartment; tooted his siren for two hours until police rescued him.

Leaving a party at Manhattan's swank Central Park Casino at 3 a. m. Louis J. Ehret, 22, grandson of the late Brewer George Ehret, drove his automobile into a Central Park lamppost. His companion, beauteous Eileen Wenzel ("Miss St. Louis" of 1925, lately a Ziegfeld showgirl) was severely cut on the face by glass.

In a mock trial to raise funds for King Edward's Hospital Fund, Lord Riddell, newspaper proprietor, in a white top hat, with a bottle of port at his elbow, sat in judgment upon Actresses Gladys Cooper, Viola Tree, Lilian Braithwaite and Elizabeth Pollock, whom Author John Drinkwater, as prosecutor, sought to convict of "practicing undue domesticity and so neglecting their art."

Said Clarence ("Piggly Wiggly") Saunders, twice bankrupt chainstore tycoon, as he saw his $500,000 Memphis estate auctioned off for $92,000: "I've lived in cottages before and can again."

At the annual outing of the National Democratic Club at Englewood, N. J. John Kenlon, 70, oldtime fire chief of New York City, won first prize in handicap golf with a net score of 88 (handicap 20).

To obtain publicity for his four Chicago hotels, now in receivership, Ernest ("Ernie") Byfield imported 20 dozen penguin eggs from Capetown, S. A. Promptly they were impounded by the Customs Office. Federal law forbids importation of wild fowl eggs. Wrote Hotelman Byfield, seldom serious, to the Customs House:

"Let me assure you that the penguin, even in its natural habitat, is not a wild bird. On the contrary, it is the most solemn member of the avian family. It goes about its business in a grave manner, its coloring is reminiscent of formal evening attire, and you may take it upon the authority of M. Anatole France that its social habits are in many instances superior to those of its well known relative, homo sapiens.

". . . We are assured that the eggs of these particular birds, because of scientific diet, have special merit in flavor, vitamin content and rejuvenating qualities. With the Democratic Convention only a week off you can see that a general hardship would result if we are prevented from offering these delicious morsels on our menus."

Pensively he added: "I may eat the entire 20 dozen myself, what with this and what with that."

"The chief examiner of the Federal Radio Commission recommended that Peter, 20, son of Manhattan Capitalist & Mrs. Robert Goelet, be permitted to re-open his broadcasting station at the family's summer estate at Chester, N. Y. The station was ordered dismantled two weeks after it. was built last autumn because it had not applied for a Federal license. Peter, who lacks technical knowledge and interests himself in program arrangement, devised the call letters KWKY because they appealed to him, had an accomplished girl friend do the actual building. Federal authorities were unaware of the station's existence until newspapers reported broadcasts of speeches by Capitalist Goelet on unemployment, Mrs. Goelet on Prohibition Repeal (TIME, Nov. 2). If final approval is granted, Peter will resume broadcasting on Saturdays & Sundays--only station in the U. S. with such a schedule.

At his summer home near New Milford, Conn, elephantine William Hanford ("Big Bill") Edwards, oldtime Princeton footballer, onetime Collector of Internal Revenue at New York City, entertained elephantine Sandor Szabo, Hungarian wrestling "champion." Reported the New Milford Times: "Mr. Szabo did much woodchopping at the Edwards place--in fact there are some who say that 'Big Bill' was short of kindlings and therefore invited one who could and did enjoy chopping. We however, do not believe this vile rumor." The Times did believe and report that "Big Bill" and Szabo engaged in a friendly bout on the lake shore, that "Big Bill" hurled the wrestler into the water before being downed.

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