"Names make news." Last week the following names made the following news:

Georges Clemenceau, spirited and robust, spent his 87th birthday frustrating eager newsmen. "Journalists now give their opinions to the public," he said, "rather than ask the public for theirs. I belong to the great public. Once I knew how to talk, now I have learned silence. Let me interpret my own silence."

Christy Mathewson Jr., son of the late famed baseball pitcher who had a million friends and only one enemy (tuberculosis), was appointed last week a cadet in the U. S. Army air service. He had been an engineer in the General Electric Co. and had completed a course in commercial aviation at the Schenectady, N. Y., airport.

Herbert Bayard Swope, of the Democratic New York World, bought an estate worth $450,000 on Long Island. Its name is "Keewaydin." This means, the Republican and opposition New York Herald-Tribune hastened to point out, "Northwest Wind, or, in some dialects, Very Wet."

Knut Hamsun, as everyone knows, won the Nobel Prize for 1920 with his novel The Growth of the Soil. Peder Johannesen, farmer of Krakmo, Norway, never won any prizes. He was simply an ingenious and diligent hayseed who installed turbines and other complex apparatus by himself, who inspired a great novelist with the dignity of certain agricultural artisans. Novelist Hamsun derived Isak, the hero of his prize novel, from Peder. Peder died last week.

John North Willys, automobileman, has an estate near Oyster Bay, Long Island. On the estate is a private beach. On the beach was found floating last week the body of a dead man. On the man was only underwear. His clothes, discovered later on the Willys beach, contained the following memo: "Sunday--Took a trip to Oyster Bay. The afternoon is sunny and cheerful. Sorry I did not bring my bathing suit, as I find quite a few bathing and enjoying it." The ill-fated intruder on Mr. Willys' private beach was identified as R. A. Richard, Manhattan salesman.

The late Morris Schinasi, Eurasian Jew who migrated to the U. S. 35 years ago and gained wealth as a maker of Turkish cigarets, kept a glamorous fondness for his birthplace. The town was Magnesia, squalid, dusty, smelly town in Asia Minor, about two hours railroad ride from Smyrna. In his will, opened last week, he gave a fifth of his $5,000,000 fortune, to found and maintain a hospital for Magnesia's poor of all creeds. He also willed much money to Jewish, Protestant and Catholic institutions.

Charles Augustus Lindbergh, belying the tradition of heroes, had avoided having his name linked in romance with a female--until last week. A rumor came to the well-cocked ears of Walter Winchell, prophet of "blessed events" and people who are "that way" over each other. He went to the Earl Carroll Theatre in Manhattan, interviewed Blanche Satchel, show girl of the Vanities, who had been called "the most beautiful titian-blonde in the world" by no less a person than Artist Howard Chandler Christy. In the New York Evening Graphic (tabloid), Mr. Winchell quoted Miss Satchel as saying: "Yes, I would like to marry him [Lindbergh], but, of course, not for glory. I would have to be very much in love with him. But Slim, as his pals call him, doesn't care much for girls. Every time we chatted he 'talked shop,' as they say. . . . But if it [the romance] is denied, it will be so embarrassing."

"And it probably will," said Mr. Winchell at the end of his story.

"Aw, shucks, there's nothing to that," said Col. Lindbergh, when questioned in St. Louis.

Col. Lindbergh had met Miss Satchel six months ago at a party in Manhattan given by Grover Loening, builder of amphibian planes.

The Deputy Governor of Windsor Castle is Reginald Baliol Brett, 76, Viscount Esher, author of those discreet volumes The Girlhood of Queen Victoria and Footprints of Statesmen. Relatively indiscreet, for Lord Esher, is the following admission, made last week: "In the absence of Their Majesties, the flagstaff on the Round Tower of Windsor Castle is being cleaned and beeswaxed."

Colonel Thomas Edward (Revolt in the Desert) Lawrence, famed British spy, was reported to be in India, spying upon Soviet Russian spys. The Colonel's London representative, Mr. Raymond Savage, sought to discredit the report, but was careful not to explicitly deny it.

Mabel Boll was described by Brooklyn Daily Eagle Special Correspondent Guy Hickock, last week, thus: "Queen of Diamonds she may be called in papers, but to those who meet her she can never be any kind of a queen. She does not know how to wear diamonds. They do her no good. Tinsel will not make a raspberry bush into a Christmas tree."

Mrs. Chauncey Mitchell Depew, widow of the late famed Senator, leased last week from Maj. Gen. William Crozier the house at No. 1735 Massachusetts Ave., Washington, D. C. When she came to Washington 26 years ago as the bride of Senator Depew, then 68, she took the house which once belonged to Orator Daniel Webster.

The face of Tsar Nicholas II appeared, last week, upon cakes of soap made by a Soviet State factory. Amid general indignation the Comrad Manager naively explained: "They sent us a rush order for soap, and to fill it on time we had to use some of the old moulds left over from before the revolution."

H. R. H. Prince Bertil of Sweden, third son of Crown Prince Gustavus Adolphus, narrowly escaped being charged with manslaughter last week.* An automobile driven by Prince Bertil overturned, killing one of the occupants; but it was made to appear that the dead man and not Prince Bertil had moved the steering wheel in such a way that the car skidded and overturned. Therefore, Prince Bertil was merely fined 500 Swedish kroner ($140) for driving without a license.

Hiram R. Mallinson, president of H. R. Mallinson & Co. (silks), last week sent his picture by photogram to several dozen silk buyers in various parts of the country. He had other Mallinsons send their photographs to their buyer friends. Printed with the pictures was an invitation for the buyers to attend the Mallinsons' spring collection of silks.

Hiram P. Maxim, 59, inventor of the Maxim gun silencer, has devised a silencer for aviation motors, which Fairchild Aviation Corp. is testing out.

Elizabeth, Duchess of York last week launched a ship, The Duchess of York.

Princess Fatima eldest daughter of the First Bed/- of the late Sultan Mohammed Vahid-Eddine Khan VI of Turkey, refused last week an offer of $500 per month to become a Hollywood cinemactress. Reason: bashful reluctance to doff her veil and appear bare-faced before a camera. Modern Turkesses all go barefaced, but Fatima, an exile in the Balkans, is an old-fashioned princess.

*In Sweden the King alone of all the Royal Family is immune from prosecution in the courts.

/-No children of the Second Bed survive and of the Third only Prince Mohammed Ertogroul.