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

The 1935 edition of the Princeton Town Directory listed Harold Willis Dodds, president of Princeton University, as follows: "Dodds, Harold Willis, president Columbia University."

On the night when her husband went out to the annual stag dinner of Albany legislative correspondents, the wife of New York's Governor Herbert Henry Lehman invited the newsmen's wives to a circus party at the Executive Mansion. The guests came in girls' dresses, hair ribbons. Pretty Mrs. Lehman twisted her hair in two braids, wore a frilly white dress with red and blue polka dots, silk stockings, socks. Most of the newsmen's wives were brazenly barelegged. At a table decorated with clowns, acrobats, elephants and five sawdust rings, they all tied bibs about their necks, gobbled their dinner, whooped when ice cream cones appeared. After dinner they sucked thumbs while a private wire brought them bits of foolery from the correspondents' dinner. Between broadcasts Mrs. Harold Keller, wife of the New York American correspondent, skipped rope. Mrs. Charles Poletti, wife of the Governor's counsel, won a set of towels by finding more peanuts (39) than anyone else. Mrs. Glenn Green, wife of a United Pressman, pinned a tail closest to the rump of a Democratic donkey, gloated: "That's female United Press accuracy."

After playing "de Lawd" in The Green Pastures for five consecutive years without missing a cue or a curtain call (TIME, March 4), Richard Berry Harrison was found in his Manhattan dressing room "in a state of super-weariness" just before the spectacle's 1,659th performance. The 70-year-old Negro actor was hospitalized for rest. Into the part stepped his understudy and friend of more than 40 years, Charles Winter Wood, 69, longtime teacher at Tuskegee Institute. Understudy Wood had traveled 40,000 mi. with the show since 1930 without having a chance to walk on as "de Lawd." "Hold me up, Charlie, hold me up," admonished Actor Harrison as he left the theatre. "I'll be back in a few days. The world at this time needs this play!" "I'll do my best, Dick," Understudy Wood told "de Lawd."

Nearly five years after the original charge was made, a court in Fontainebleau, France, found Painter Jean Franc,ois Millet's grandson Jean Charles guilty of forging canvases, selling them to foreigners as the work of Grandfather Millet, Monet, Sisley, Pissarro (TIME, May 19, 1930; Feb.11). Grandson Millet and his partner in forgery were sentenced to six months in jail, fined 500 francs ($33) each, ordered to pay a total of 120,000 francs to the dealer who brought the charge. Carefully suppressed was evidence as to how many pictures were forged and who paid how much for what.

Sir:

I have the honor to inform you that you have been selected for appointment as a cadet of the United States Military Academy at West Point, N. Y., and you are, therefore, authorized by the Secretary of War to present yourself before a board of officers at Fort Sheridan, Ill. on the fifth day of March, before 9 o'clock a. m., for mental and physical examination. . . .

In Washington, D. C., Thomas Jonathan Jackson Christian Jr., 19, opened an envelope from the War Department and read those words of Adjutant General James F. McKinley. Great was the pride of handsome, serious-minded Cadet-select Thomas Jonathan Jackson Christian Jr., son of a West Pointer (1911) now attached to the War College, and only living great-grandson of one of the Military Academy's most famed graduates, Thomas Jonathan ("Stonewall") Jackson, Lieut.-General, Confederate States Army.

By sitting in the audience at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House, Composer Deems Taylor was able to witness both the operatic debut of his 8-year-old daughter Joan and the establishment of an endurance record by his Peter Ibbetson, first U. S. opera to remain in the Metropolitan's repertoire for four years. Daughter Joan, self-assured, mimed the part of Mimsey Seraskier, the child of groping Peter's dreams. Backstage she spent most of her time studying school homework.

Of the jury which convicted Bruno Richard Hauptmann, Defense Counsel Edward J. Reilly said in Brooklyn: "One look at that jury was enough. . . . One of the women jurors had a tremendous appetite and ate tremendous meals. How in God's name could she return to the jury box after lunch without being dull? We would have had no more chance if we had brought John the Baptist there as a defense witness."

Herbert George Wells sailed from Southampton to survey the New Deal for Collier's magazine. Said he: "I am going to America to improve my mind."

Arthur Brisbane in his "Today" column:

"From the Windward Islands comes an account of an excursion boat capsizing, with 'fears that sharks had eaten 34 that disappeared!' . .

''John Tyndall, walking home beside a swamp, looking at crayfish, reflected as he walked along, 'If I should fall into the swamp, John Tyndall would become part of the brain of a crayfish, whereas if I took a few of the fish home and ate them, they would become part of the brain of John Tyndall.'

"Matter is marvellously interchangeable. If 34 drowned off the Windward Islands were eaten by sharks, they are, by now, part of numerous shark brains."

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