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

Harold Sidney Harmsworth, Viscount Rothermere of Hemsted, "The Hearst of England," was last week flayed by former British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, flayed him savagely in return.

Baldwin: "I have no intention of resigning as leader of the Conservative Party at the behest of Rothermere (who wants the post himself). . . . Lord Rothermere proved a failure in the two Ministerial posts he held during the War (Director General of Army Clothing Department and Air Minister)."

Rothermere: (to reporters as he returned to London last week from New York) "I consider Mr. Baldwin a completely incompetent person, who by post-War political accident fluked his way into high office!" Of the U. S. he went on to say:

"During my stay in New York I have heard . . . half a dozen great industrial leaders . . . some of whose names are familiar on both sides of the Atlantic . . . treat the recent stockmarket panic as lightly as one might regard an attack of chicken pox on a strong and growing youth. . . . Be a bull on America and you cannot go wrong! is one of their favorite sayings.

"The nation as a whole has, and is entitled to have, unshakable confidence in its enduring prosperity."

Mrs. Thomas Alva Edison went golfing for the first time in her life at Fort Myers, Fla. She missed her tee shot, drove 90 yd. on her second try, finished nine holes in 99. Next day she ordered a set of clubs. Her husband is no golfer.

Louis Untermyer, critic (American Poetry Since 1900), poet (First Love), arrived in Manhattan from Italy with a plan to raise Sardinian donkeys, saying that they were docile, friendly, about the size of a collie dog.

Senator James Couzens of Michigan, meeting William Jeffries Chewning Jr., his son-in-law, for the first time at lunch in Washington, told reporters: "He seems a very nice chap." Mr. & Mrs. Chewning had eloped to Baltimore (TIME, Feb. 10).

Publisher Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis, whose magazines last year made $21,534,265, gave $300,000 to Drexel Institute (Philadelphia) for a ten-story women's dormitory. A trustee of the institution, he has given it $1,400,000 in the last six years.

Capitalist George Fisher Baker gave Dartmouth College another $1,000,000 to maintain the $1,000,000 Baker Memorial Library he donated three years ago, in memory of his uncle Fisher Ames Baker (class of 1859).

William Crapo Durant sued the New York Telegram and eight other newspapers and news services for $45,000,000, the biggest libel action ever based on one story. The publications had carried a story which he interpreted as connecting him with shady stock deals resulting in heavy market losses to Mrs. Elizabeth C. Hudson.

Christopher Morley, whimsical gentleman of letters, last week filed a petition for a receivership for the Hoboken Theatrical Co. which has presented sundry old melodramas and musical diversions in musty old theatres in Hoboken, N. J., 15 minutes by tube or ferry from Manhattan (TIME, Sept. 3, 1928, March 25, Oct. 7). The reasons adduced by Mr. Morley in his petition, more notable for turns of phrases than fiscal persuasiveness, were: 1) peculation and mismanagement on the part of former associates and employes; 2) superfluous production costs; 3) summer decline in business; 4) the stockmarket disturbance. Mr. Morley declared that solid assets exceeded liabilities, that creditors would be paid.

Rockwell Kent, artist, author (Voyaging, Wilderness--), inconvenienced by the discontinuance of railroad service at his Ausable Forks, N. Y. farm, wrote the Public Service Commission, saying that for five months no trains had run on the Ausable Forks-Plattsburg branch of the Delaware & Hudson R. R. Said he: "No application was ever made to the commission by the railroad for permission to discontinue service ... the severance of all railroad passenger communication with the main line will injuriously affect the growth of the communities surrounding it, the value of the real estate and the volume of local trade in the communities affected."

Joseph Patrick Tumulty, onetime secretary of President Thomas Woodrow Wilson, said of his late great employer, on the sixth anniversary of his death: "The modern banking and currency system he gave to the country saved the world from financial chaos in the Great War, gave permanent security to all forms of business and supplied the basis for the prosperity the nation has since enjoyed."

Vincent Astor, Manhattan realtor and apple grower, won a prize for growing and packing the fruit on his Rhinecliff estate, at the Poughkeepsie Exhibition of the New York State Horticultural Society.

Viscountess Astor, American-born British feminist, gave the Plymouth Museum the dress she wore as the first woman to take a seat in the House of Commons.

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