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

George Bernard Shaw (74 last week) was asked if he was the tall, bearded man seen riding behind Col. Thomas Edward (Revolt in the Desert) Lawrence. Said he: "Good Heavens, man, I've got a perfectly good motorcycle of my own. . . . I've never ridden pillion in my life, though I shouldn't mind doing so in the ordinary way. But Lawrence's machine is such a great brute of a thing and he goes so fast I doubt whether I could hold on. Probably I'd be left sitting in the road!''

Max Schmeling, world's champion heavyweight fighter, driving a fast motorboat alone on Scharmuetzelsee (large lake 18 1/2 mi. from Berlin) dove off just before the boat sank, shed his overcoat, leather jacket and boots while swimming, was rescued, exhausted, after 30 min.

Ralph Ince, cineman, trolling for sea bass 18 mi. offshore from Santa Monica, Calif., yanked his line to free it from a kelp bed. fell to the deck in agony. The line had whipped back over his head, embedded the three-inch fishhook in the base of his skull. Asa Yoelson ("Al Jolson"), mammy singer, stood by in his fast motorboat, sped Ince ashore to a hospital.

Cinemactor Rex Lease paid a $50 fine at Malibu Beach, Calif, for punching the eye of Vivian Duncan, dancer. His plea: self-defense. Her charge: he took the keys to her car, advanced.

Dugald B. Dewar, Portland (Me.) broker, unsuccessful Wet candidate in June for the Republican senatorial nomination, was arrested in South Portland for driving while intoxicated. Sentence: 60 days (out on $1,000 bail).

Smedley Darlington Butler Jr., son of the famed, gimlet-eyed Brig.-Gen- eral of Marines, was arrested for motoring 65 m. p. h. through Salem, N. J., fined $10 by Justice of the Peace Elizabeth Smith.

Col. Robert Todd Oliver, 63, of Philadelphia, bemedalled chief of the U. S. Army dental corps, instructor of military tactics and dental science at the University ! of Pennsylvania took office as President of the American Dental Association; succeeding Dr. R. Boyd Bogle of Nashville, Tenn.: preceding President-elect Dr. Martin Dewey of Manhattan; at the association's Denver convention.

Arthur W. Cutten, Chicago grain & stock tycoon, caught the last of the nine bandits who eight years ago looted his Downers Grove., Ill. home, left him smothering in a basement vault. Simon Rosenberg was the eighth to be captured (TIME, April 14). Last week, his brother, Caspar surrendered himself in Wheaton, Ill. Said he: "I've been hunted long enough. I am innocent and prepared to prove it. I can't go on any longer, always hiding. Cutten wins."

David Belasco submitted himself to a 77th birthday interview in Atlantic City. Excerpt: "I have sought out the drama of life in all its phases, sordid, joyous, tragic. ... I said to my friend Dr. Brigham, in San Francisco: 'Will you let me come to your next lecture?' He agreed. There in the centre of the operating amphitheatre, lay the body. My professional friend withdrew the sheet. It was the face of a girl, and I all but fainted. "It was the sweetheart of one of my best friends, who had been false to her. She had died by her own hand, nameless and friendless, and been brought here, an anatomical lesson. "To point his lecture Dr. Brigham cut out her heart. Seeing me weak and pale, he dismissed the students. 'You too, had better go,' he said. I said, 'Will you let me remain here alone with this heart?' He agreed. Attendants removed the body, and I stayed, watching, alone, this symbol of human emotions that I had known had run the gamut of joy and sorrow. ''I had seen that girl clasp her lover-- my friend--with Madonna-like joy. I had seen her claw the face of him with her nails because of his faithlessness. And I looked and wondered and wept. It is the greatest thing that has ever happened to me."

North Dakota's Episcopal Bishop John Poyntz Tyler had an appeal from a tall, well-mannered young man with a coupe, set him on his way to Chicago with $2, a tankful of gasoline. When clergymen began writing to the Bishop from South Dakota, Kansas, Oklahoma that they had been glad to help his "son" he issued a warning through The Churchman that his three sons were all accounted for, none traveling.

Helen Jacobs, second-ranking U. S. woman tennis player, on doctors' orders withdrew from all tournaments for one year. Cause: heart strain.

Gertrude Ederle, channel swimmer four years ago, is now a swimming instructor (with EDERLE lettered on the back of her suit) at a pool in Rye, N. Y. Said she last week: "It wasn't worth while. I'm not sorry I did it. Only--if I'd known how it was going to be, that I'd lose my hearing -- I don't think I'd have done it. I did earn about $150,000 in vaudeville but I got less than $50.000 of it myself. . . . But sometimes at dances the orchestra plays 'Let Me Call You Sweetheart,' the song I kept humming when I was in the channel. ..."*

Sir Oliver Lodge, British scientist-spiritualist, addressed the U. S. by radio from London. Excerpts: "Undoubtedly you have high aspiration. The utterances of your statesmen are already an example to the rest of the world. The time will come when you decide to live up to them. The time will come when you are trusted. . . . Ultimately, I believe, in due time, the police force of the world will be in the hands of America."

*While she swam the channel (TIME, Aug. 16, 1926), her father, Brooklyn butcher, enheartened her by having the band in his tug play The Star-Spangled Banner, Yes, We HAVE No bananas, Barney Google. . . .

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