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

Out of the hospital near London's Buckingham Palace where she takes care of British officers stepped Sister Agnes Keyser, close friend of Britain's George & Mary who carries her own key to the royal gardens. At the hospital's gate, astonished Sister Agnes found not the travel-worn automobile in which she always rode, but a spic & span new one. She learned that His Majesty, motoring past the hospital, had noticed her old car, ordered for her a Daimler like his own, in the royal colors of maroon and scarlet.

In Manhattan after a European trip was talkative James Watson Gerard, 66, Wartime Ambassador to Germany, who three years ago issued a famed list of 64 "real rulers of the U. S." He told newshawks: "That list is no longer significant. Things have changed. In that list I included no statesmen, not even former President Hoover, because the men I did include were too busy to hold public office, yet their influence determined who should hold such office. I could revise the list so that it included 59 leading industrialists, bankers, journalists, and so forth, today, but I could not call them the real rulers of the country. . . . The President is ruling the country today, and nobody else is. ... Or, looking at it in another way, it could be increased so as to hold the names of the vast majority of voters in this country. They are ruling the country, and really ruling it, through their elected representative, the President. But even in their special fields, the big bankers and industrialists of today are not the leaders they were in 1930. With the revolt of the voters has come : revolt of the stock- holders. The day of secret bonuses and unreasonable salaries has gone forever. ... What has happened has most certainly been a good thing for the country. In fact, it has been a damn good thing!"

A British ship-breaking company paid $67,500 for the Oscar II, the "peace ship" chartered in 1915 by Henry Ford "to get the boys out of the trenches by Christmas."

University of Southern California's President Rufus Bernhard von Kleinsmid returned from a visit to ex-Kaiser Wilhelm II in Doom, Holland, said that the ex-Kaiser urged all German-Americans to cooperate with President Roosevelt's recovery program.

In Washington, Frederick Adrian Delano, 70-year-old uncle of President Roosevelt, patented a "one-way window glass." Made of a "corrugated transparent material," Uncle Delano's invention so distorts light rays that it is opaque when looked at from one side, transparent from the other.

While motoring to Boston, where he is working for his father's Colonial-Beacon Oil Co., Winthrop Rockefeller, fourth son of John Davison Rockefeller Jr., ran out of gasoline on a road near Hingham, Mass., had to be pushed. Off to Petersham, Mass, went Federal Judge John Munro Woolsey of New York with a copy of James Joyce's famed Ulysses, long barred from the U. S. as ''immoral and licentious." He will spend his vacation reading it, decide whether it may be published in a U. S. edition.

In Hollywood, the wife of oldtime Film Actor Bryant Washburn, exasperated because he had brought a friend, one J. Demiteis, home with him early in the morning, picked up a French telephone, banged it down on the pate of J. Demiteis. Summoned by frightened neighbors, police found her screaming: "I've just killed a man!", found J. Demiteis alive but dizzy.

Claire Windsor, film actress, defending a $100,000 alienation of affections suit in Hollywood, admitted she had written the following in her first love-letter to Broker Alfred C. Read Jr.: "Darling, you have been gone only three hours. It seems strange to come up to my room and not call you to let you know I am here, and in a few minutes I will be eating alone."

In a Manhattan court Cartoonist Harry Conway ("Bud") Fisher (Mutt & Jeff) asked that his $400 weekly alimony payment to Aedita S. Fisher (onetime Countess de Beaumont) be cut to $100. He said that Depression had reduced the income from his comic strip from $52,000 per year to $26,000, forced him to sell his racing stable.

"To plant the cross of Jesus alongside the Blue Eagle of the NRA," Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson Hutton signed a contract to appear in vaudeville on Broadway. Said she: "In debating with myself I found my flesh shrinking from the misunderstanding of motives which might be focused upon me, but when I consider what Christ would do were He here upon earth, there was no other answer than His own word: 'I come not to call the righteous but sinners to repentance.' It is not as an actress that I shall go before the footlights. My purpose will be to contact the non-churchgoers." Reported balm for Evangelist Hutton's shrinking flesh: $1,000 per week.

Ill lay: Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodan, 71, Britain's Wartime Foreign Secretary, gravely, of heart disease, in Christen Bank, Northumberland; California's Governor James Rolph Jr., of congestion of the lungs and high fever, in San Francisco; Betty Compton Walker, of colitis, in Evian-les-Bains, France; Actress Tallulah Bankhead, of acute abdominal trouble, in Manhattan; Valerie Marguerite Germonpres von Stroheim, third wife of Film Director Erich Oswald Hans Carl Maria von Nordenwall von Stroheim, of burns about the head and shoulders and seared lungs when a hair-drying machine in a beauty shop ignited, in Hollywood.

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