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

In London, U. S. Actress Claire Luce (Of Mice and Men), practicing at a range target for a tiger hunt in India, discharged a .22-calibre rifle, grazed the arch of her right foot.

On Long Island, while attempting a forcible feeding of a 24-ft. python at his private zoo, Frank ("Bring 'Em Back Alive") Buck was severely bitten on the index finger of his left hand.

Princess Baba (Valerie Brooke) of Sarawak, now in Palo Alto, Calif, awaiting birth of a child, and her English wrestler-husband Bob Gregory announced they were in the market for an island in The Netherlands Indies where "every man would be a raja." Royal proclamation: -'We're going to have a democracy, but with a court and things--maybe an aristocratic democracy. I think a country without lots of uniforms and braids is no fun." Princess Baba's price: $30,000. Cracked the Ranee of Sarawak, mother of the Princess: "She couldn't even buy a thimble."

Recovered from the kidney ailment which had bedded him on arrival in the U. S. fortnight ago, tall Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf Bernadotte of Sweden left the hospital for Manhattan's Ritz-Carlton. During his first week of regular duty as visiting royalty: he and Crown Princess Louise visited the Metropolitan Museum of Art (his chief interest: Oriental antiquities); he lunched at the Union Club with Lafayette College's President William Mather Lewis, to get an LL.D., while Crown Princess Louise lunched at the River Club with the Herald Tribune's Mrs. Ogden Reid to wait for President Lewis to give her a degree. (When he didn't show up she hurried off to have a talk with Mayor LaGuardia, got her degree later); they banqueted at the Waldorf. Meanwhile Prince Bertil, having his own fun, visited Annapolis, learned to drive a locomotive, toured airports and airplane factories, had a look at Howard Hughes' transatlantic plane (see p. 37), watched Major Alexander de Seversky stunt-fly, flew over Manhattan. He joined his parents for cocktails at Banker (Chase National) Winthrop Aldrich's Glen Head, L. I., home. That night, with water on his knee, he sat on the sidelines at a Creek Club dance while Long Island's swankest youngsters did a turn. Next day he left on the Hiram Edward Manvilles'* yacht for a dinner dance at Newport given by the Socialite Beverley Bogerts, a Bailey's Beachparty given by Socialite Jane Pope. In Cambridge, Mass., where Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf got another LL.D. (from Harvard), the family reunited. The busy Bernadottes' itinerary from there: Washington, Chicago, Minneapolis.

While Ruth Pruyn Phipps Field (the 3rd Mrs. Marshall Field III) slept in her Lloyds Neck, L. I. home, $15,000-worth of insured diamond jewelry disappeared from her dressing table.

Fortnight ago luscious Cinemactress Paulette Goddard, said to be at odds with her longtime companion, Charlie Chaplin, turned up to visit him at Pebble Beach, Calif., where the grey-haired little comedian has his summer house. One day last week Miss Goddard went out to play golf at the Cyprus Point Club. There she registered as "Mrs. Charlie Chaplin." While Hollywood wondered whether this at last was tacit admission of what Holly wood had long tacitly taken to be fact--that Paulette Goddard is and has been for several years Charlie Chaplin's third wife*--the talkative cinemactor once more re fused to discuss "our personal affairs." Neither would "Mrs. Chaplin."

Ill lay: Idaho's U. S. Senator William Edgar Borah, 73, in Washington, from overwork; famed Physicist Dr. Robert Andrews Millikan, 70, at Rochester, Minnesota's Mayo Clinic, /- from a gall-bladder ailment; Commander Joel Thompson Boone, U.S.N. Medical Corps, at San Diego's Naval Hospital, from an abdominal operation; Ice Skater Jack Dunn in Hollywood, from a streptococcic throat infection ; New Jersey's Governor A. Harry Moore in his Little White House at Sea Girt, N. J., from intestinal influenza.

*The Manvilles' daughter Estelle is married to Count Folke Bernadotte (cousin of the Crown Prince).

*Charlie Chaplin's first wife was onetime Cinemactress Mildred Harris, who divorced him in 1920. His second wife, Lita Grey, who bore him two sons, divorced him in 1927. Last week at Manhattan Beach, Calif., Lita Grey, since married and divorced again, was herself married a third time to a 29-year-old cinemagent, Arthur F. Day Jr.

/-Where James Roosevelt was reported markedly improved after treatments for a stomach ulcer, and planning to leave this week.

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