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

Alone and unnoticed at the Havre de Grace races, onetime Vice President Charles Curtis pulled a wad of bills from his pocket to make a bet. Several bills fell to the ground. There being no longer a Secret Service man at hand to spring forward and pick them up, he bent over, puffing, and picked them up himself.

Luis Angel Firpo, onetime "Wild Bull of the Pampas'' in heavyweight boxing, now a Stutz automobile salesman, was released on bail in Buenos Aires charged with "conspiring to acquire farm property fraudulently at mortgage sales." In Lake Forest, Ill., socialites flocked to see Irene Castle McLaughlin, retired dancer, return to the stage after a nine-year absence to take a part in the try-out of Harlan Ware's Return to Folly. Also present were 35 Negresses to whom Mrs. McLaughlin gives dancing lessons at the local Y. W. C. A. Proceeds went to "Orphans of the Storm," homeless dog refuge which Mrs. McLaughlin makes her hobby (TIME, Oct. 7, 1930 et seq.). During rehearsals, Leone, Mrs. McLaughlin's small Pomeranian, jumped from a balcony, fell sprawling, was picked up to die in her sorrowing mistress' arms. Bermudians saw the big white hull of the world's third biggest yacht* in Hamilton Harbor, Textile Man Julius Forstmann's Orion. Early one morning the monotonous shriek of hurricane wind & rain awoke owner Forstmann in his huge grey & rose owner's bedroom which runs the width of the yacht (46 1/2 ft.). Despite anchors the hurricane drove the Orion stern foremost onto the Isle of White in the centre of the harbor. It took towing launches two days to float her. "Two Perplexed Couples" asked Dorothy Dix (real name Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer) whether it was all right to display affection before marriage. Excerpt from Miss Dix's elegant reply, syndicated in 190 newspapers: "A cynic said once that there were certain things that were worse than immoral. They were bad taste. . . . Nothing is so provincial, nothing so utterly marks a boy and girl as having no social background and no knowledge of the world as to make a display of their emotions for every grinning Tom, Dick and Harry. ... So while it may not be wrong for an engaged couple to indulge in petting parties in public, it is certainly common, and it hands the multitude a laugh. . . ." Among winners in an annual contest held in art and writing by Scholastic (national high school magazine) was Leicester Clarence Hemingway, 17, brother of hard-boiled Author Ernest Hemingway. A high school student in Oak Park, Ill., Leicester Hemingway got honorable mention for his short story ''Sunday After-noon." Terse, observant as his big brother, he opens his story: "I stood off the edge of the road that followed the bluff. The gravel was wet, and right below me it had washed out for two hundred feet. A bad wind was blowing, and the sky looked very dark all over." Leicester Hemingway goes on to tell how he helped grapple for two bodies drowned in Lake Michigan. Ending: ''A little bat flew over the boat, banked, and was gone. ''Somebody from the big boat called out. "'That cap belonged to the other fella all right. Post number 184. They looked it up and they're from Royal Oaks all right.' " 'Yeah. Sequels

To news of bygone weeks, herewith sequels from last week's news: P: To the march of the Bonus Expeditionary Force on Washington led by Com- mander-in-Chief Walter W. Waters (TIME, June 13, 1932 et seq.): Waters' first job since then, as a filling station attendant in Omaha. His new party for the jobless, akin to Hitler's Nazis, had failed to get recruits.

P: To the birth of the "world's smallest baby" (1 lb., 14 in.), Charles Bernard St. John in Kansas City (TIME, April 18, 1932): growth to 19 lb. P: To the Westchester County court order to enucleate 2-year-old Helen Vasko's cancered left eye (TIME, April 24): enucleation at Manhattan's Medical Center. Microscopy showed no spread of the growth along the optic nerve, indicated that the child probably will live. The surgeon was Dr. John H. Dunnington, colleague of Eye Specialist John M. Wheeler who operated on Siam's King Prajadhipok two years ago.

*Biggest: Mrs. Richard M. Cadwalader's Savarona. Second biggest: John Pierpont Morgan's Corsair.

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