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

Mining Engineer Herbert Hoover prospected near Winnemucca, Nev.

Citizens of Lancaster, Pa. prepared to raise money to preserve "Wheatlands," once the 22-acre farm of James Buchanan, 15th and only bachelor President.

"I'm happier if I just read the headlines," revealed Ettie Rheiner Garner, wife and secretary of the Vice President. "I prefer to get the news from conversations with the men."

Washington's romping Lieutenant Governor Victor Aloysius Meyers sued Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp. for $250,000 damages to his reputation which he claims he suffered when Comedian Fred Allen cracked in Thanks a Million: "Up in Washington they elected a jazz-band leader Lieutenant Governor, and if people will vote for a jazz-band leader, they'll vote for anybody."

Prowling through Malahide Castle in Ireland, where he previously unearthed thousands of original James Boswell papers and the original manuscript of Boswell's Journal of a Trip to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, Colonel Ralph H. Isham, rich authority on Johnson, discovered in an iron trunk in the strong room the diary of Samuel Johnson, missing 150 years. The yellowed journal opens on Jan. 1, 1765, when Dr. Johnson noted "A prayer completed" and ends Nov. 8, 1784, 35 days before his death, with an entry in Latin: "A night distressed and preoccupied by acute pain, destroying sleep. Occupied with fearful thoughts. Resolved to hope." Value of the Johnson diary to scholarship depends on how much of it was available to Biographer Boswell who, Colonel Isham announced on arriving in Manhattan, saw none of the entries for the final year.

Speaker Oswald D. Heck of the New York State Assembly reported to Schenectady police the theft of his dime savings bank, containing $8.

In Detroit Norman Selby (Kid McCoy),* 64, paunchy oldtime welterweight champion was pleased to hear he had been pardoned for murdering his mistress in 1925, a crime for which he served seven years in San Quentin Prison. Employed by Ford Motor To. since he was paroled three years ago. Fighter McCov promptly signed a $1,500-3-week vaudeville contract to tour with oldtime middleweight Philadelphia Jack O'Brien. Beamed McCoy: "You can't realize what a yoke this takes from my neck. It means a new life for me."

Damon Runvon Jr., 18, started work in the Cleveland bureau of United Press. Said he: '"I want to make my half of the name just as big as the other half."

From his Florida estate Walter Evans Edge, onetime U. S. Ambassador to France, sped to Atlantic City to shake hands with City Finance Commissioner Frank B. Off on the Boardwalk at Pennsylvania Avenue, where the two have met and shaken every Easter since 1905.

In Manhattan on the Queen Mary arrived Countess Josee Laval de Chambrun, daughter of ex-Premier Laval of France, and her husband. Count Rene de Chambrun, nephew of the late Speaker of the House Nicholas Longworth and of Count Charles de Chambrun who was wounded in Paris fortnight ago by angry Actress-Journalist Madeleine de Fontanges (TIME, March 29). Vexed at newspaper reports that he would return at once because of the shooting, the Count snapped: "I do not know the woman. . . . There is nothing I could do."

A Count Jean de Chambrun, nephew of the wounded Count Charles de Chambrun and cousin of Count Rene de Chambrun (see above), ran down and killed one Henri Lorfelin & wife, parents of 19 children, at Dieppe, France.

J. P. Morgan, cruising in the Corsair, ran aground at Nassau.

*Two weeks after one Pete McCoy had disgracefully lost a San Francisco bout in 1899, tricky, cruel Boxer Kid McCoy gave Joe Choynski a terrific walloping. "This is the real McCoy!" exclaimed a sportswriter, thus coining an enduring U. S. phrase.

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