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

Motorists whizzing from New Jersey to Manhattan through Holland Tunnel (under the Hudson River) honked irritably at a car which crept stubbornly at 20 m. p. h. Drivers who turned to scowl saw huddled in the tonneau an aged man wrapped in heavy robes (the temperature was 88DEG, humidity 73), wearing goggles and earmuffs. He was John Davison Rockefeller Sr., returning from his Lakewood, N. J. estate to Pocantico Hills, N. Y. to celebrate his 93rd birthday. It was his first trip through the 9,250 ft. tube, long deferred because he had feared the high atmospheric pressure might hurt his eardrums--hence the earmuffs.

Of Andrew William Mellon, upon whom he was conferring an LL. D., said Dr. James Macintosh at Edinburgh University: "We feel sure his unrivaled experience in private and public finance, coupled with the courage which made even the bootlegger quail, will find a way of helping the world over its present difficulties."

With an ivory-handled silver trowel, and with the help of a master mason in shirtsleeves, Lord Southborough laid the cornerstone of the British Empire Building, first of a group of foreign-sponsored buildings which will comprise part of Manhattan's Rockefeller Center. Afterward John Davison Rockefeller Jr. gave a luncheon on the roof of the swank Hotel St. Regis for Lord Southborough and the group who had come from England for the ceremony, among them: the Marchioness of Crewe (daughter of Lord Rosebery, onetime Prime Minister); Countess of Granard (sister of Secretary of Treasury Ogden Mills); Viscount Elibank, Chairman of Federation of Chambers of Commerce of the Empire, and Viscountess Elibank. Said Mr. Rockefeller: "Those material resources [which made Rockefeller Center possible] come to me quite wholly from the most generous father any son ever had . . . the delightful gentleman of 93 who was unable to be here today."

On Eve of Apostle's Day Pope Pius XI knelt among the tombs of his predecessors in the Grotto of St. Peter's, placidly examined the tomb he has chosen for his own remains. Said he: "I also will find sweet repose in this place some day."

A helper in a Manhattan garage found a clublike object in the pocket of an automobile, tinkered with it. In a moment he was screaming with pain and fright. The automobile belonged to Seymour Horace ("Shorty") Knox, Buffalo socialite, banker, poloist. The explosive club was a "teargas billy," purchased by Banker Knox for protection of himself & family when the Lindbergh kidnapping excitement was at its height.

Lounging about his villa at Celigny on Lake Geneva, wavy-haired Composer Ernest Schelling heard a woman scream. On the adjoining villa, occupied by young Robert Thompson Pell, press attache of the U. S. delegation at the Disarmament Conference, servants ran about, wringing their hands, gesticulating toward a boat about 100 yd. offshore to which a woman was clinging while her screams became fainter. Composer Schelling raced into the water, swam to the boat, found Mrs. Pell in a bathing suit, unconscious, hanging head-down in the water. Her right leg was impaled on a sharp Swiss oarlock. Composer Schelling disengaged Mrs. Pell's skewered leg, took her ashore. Revived, in care of doctors (who found no permanent injury), Mrs. Pell explained that the accident occurred as she was diving overboard.

In payment of an alleged wager with Showman Samuel Lionel ("Roxy") Rothafel that his first born would be a boy, Borrah Minevitch, harmonica virtuoso, set out in his sloop from Nice to Africa "to hunt lions." When four days passed without sign of the boat Mrs. Minevitch set up an alarum. Three days later Musician Minevitch turned up at Bandol on the south coast of France with this story: As soon as they were out of sight of land his crew of four Corsicans, whom he had promised to pay $39 a day, lowered sail, made themselves comfortable, let the sloop drift. Even after running up a bill for four days' wages without getting anywhere, they refused to head for any port. Finally, in return for all of Minevitch's money, his snappy yachting clothes, and the sloop itself, they put him aboard a fishing boat which took him ashore. Snorted Showman Rothafel: ". . . up to one of his well known jokes."

After 20 years in which he had made the Adlon Berlin's most famed hotel, obsequious, frock-coated Manager Ewald Kretschmar resigned. Smartest Berlin hotel is the Esplanade, but the Adlon's bar is a rendezvous where everyone meets everyone sooner or later.

Famed English fathers and their sons were the guests of Father Winston Churchill at a coming-of-age dinner to Son Randolph Churchill in London's Socialite Claridges Hotel. Newspaper Peers Beaverbrook, Rothermere and Camrose all brought their sons as did Admiral Earl Beatty, Prime Minister Viscount Craigavon of Northern Ireland and Viscount Hailsham, Minister of War, whose son is the Hon. Quintin Hogg. The coming-of-age toast to Son Churchill, who sat between his kinsman the Duke of Marlborough and the Marquess of Reading, was proposed by the youthful Earl of Birkenhead, son of England's late and perhaps greatest Lord Chancellor. Cut and chomped was a coming-of-age cake with 21 twinkling candles.

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