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

In London the Dean of Canterbury was forced to postpone a radio appeal in behalf of the Asthma Research Council. Cause: an attack of asthma.

With his son King Feisal of Irak supporting one arm, and with his other son the Amir Abdullah of Transjordania supporting his other arm, forlorn former King Hussein of the Hejaz landed in Palestine last week, en route from his exile on the Island of Cyprus to Amman, capital of Transjordiana. Object: needed medical attention.*

President Charles Giffin Pease of the Non-Smokers' Protective League of America, 76, through whose efforts smoking was prohibited in New York subways in 1909, adopted Mrs. A. Audrey Ulric Fiedler, 46, wife of a Newark, N. J. realtor. Henceforth she will call herself Audrey Pease Fiedler. Explained President Pease: "Last May the dear lady was virtually near death. She had been in the care of doctors and was being drugged to death. I was brought in and she was instantly healed. I discovered that what she missed was the spiritual side of life."

Mrs. Dwight Whitney Morrow told members of Manhattan's Women's City Club how, when they were in Mexico, her husband had censored her recently published children's book. The Painted Pig. Because its characters were little Mexicans, cautious Ambassador Morrow changed the sentence "but generals are brittle and easily broken" to read "but glass generals are brittle. . . ." When he had perused the book he sent it for consideration to the Mexican Minister of Foreign Affairs.

William Randolph Hearst made known that the "Hearst-For-President"' buttons which popped up in Los Angeles during his recent visit there had been distributed by one S. F. Champion Jr. on the latter's own initiative. Said Publisher Hearst in a letter to Booster Champion: "1) I have had my day in politics . . . not a very long day nor a very brilliant day,/- but sufficient to convince me that my best opportunity for achievement was . . . not in holding office. 2) I am 67 years old. 3) A politician can never tell how much of his sacrifice is due to public demand and how much to personal ambition."

With Miss Ishbel MacDonald presiding last week at a Fabian (Socialist) Society meeting in London, Fabian George Bernard Shaw predicted the fall of her father's cabinet "after the next election," flayed the British dole to unemployed: "Not only are there men who have never worked but there are children who have never known their fathers to work."

"A great service to this community has been rendered by Mr. Percy H. Johnston, president of the Chemical Bank and Trust Co. of New York, who is responsible for the reopening of the Security Bank," read full-page advertisements in Louisville papers last week. Said Banker Johnston: "The people of Kentucky have been 'shellshocked' by recent bank failures, are 'over-appreciative.' "

When Margot Einstein was married to Dr. Dimitri Marianov at a Berlin registry office, her father, Physicist Albert Einstein, said that he would attend the ceremony if it could take place in 30 min. He attended in celluloid collar, battered hat, aged raincoat. Impatient when the nuptials took 60 min., he vigorously protested against being photographed. Then he hustled back to his soundproof study. Said his wife: "It was a case of love at first sight with our daughter. Dr. Marianov came to our house several months ago, and from that moment Margot's heart was lost. We think the world of our new son-in-law." Next day Professor & Frau Einstein left for Antwerp to embark for the U. S.

Racehorse Lady Broadcast, property of Banker Rogers Caldwell, head of Caldwell & Co. whose recent crash precipitated bank failures throughout the South (TIME, Dec. 1), ran second in a race at Bowie (Md.) track on Thanksgiving Day. It was the last race in which the Caldwell colors will appear. Banker Caldwell is selling his stables, turning farmer.

Earl Sande, premier U. S. jockey, made his debut as a professional tenor at the Kiwanis Club of Alexandria, Va., sang "Mother Machree" and "Bird Songs at Eventide." Asked after the performance how he had felt, said he: "Well, I was kinda nervous."

It became known that Artist Peter Arno (The New Yorker), having designed the sets for a revue called The New Yorkers, was denied admission to the New York Scenic Artists Union. His designs had to be redrawn by someone else before the scenery could be constructed.

Professor Emeritus Henry van Dyke of Princeton, commenting on the award of the Nobel prize in literature to Novelist Sinclair Lewis (Main Street, Babbitt, Arrowsmith, Dodsworth), said: "They handed Lewis a bouquet, but they gave America a very backhanded compliment." Commented Novelist Lewis: "I am particularly honored that the attack came from where it did." Then he sailed for Sweden to receive his $46,350. Said he: "Naturally I felt that some day I would get this recognition, but I did not know when. I should be just as glad if Eugene O'Neill had received it. . . . I'd have felt the same way about Ernest Hemingway. He'll get it some day, but I suppose he hasn't written enough yet. I think Hemingway will get the award in ten years. Then there is Willa Cather. No one writes better."

"I've been called 47 different varieties of undesirable persons. Now let's have a standing vote--have I or have I not any sex appeal?" -- Whopper-Teller Joan Lowell (Cradle of the Deep) before the St. Louis Rotary Club.

The late "Madame" Sarah J. Walker, St. Louis Negro washwoman who grew rich from sales of a straightener of kinky hair, built a $250,000 mansion in New York City's socialite suburb Irvington-on-Hudson and furnished it for $350,000. Last week "Madame" Walker's rich heir, Mrs. Lelia Walker Robinson, ordered the furnishings auctioned. Mrs. Mamie Pratt, friend of "Madame's," bought three black pillows for her Harlem undertaking establishment. A gold-leaf piano brought $450, a gold-leaf phonograph $45. Women fought for nicknacks. Total sales: $58,500.

Dining in a London hotel, Actress Tallulah Bankhead, daughter of Senator-elect John Bankhead of Alabama, was suddenly attacked by an unnamed actress who slapped Miss Bankhead's face, tore off her hat. Miss Bankhead remained calm, restored her hat, lit a cigaret.

The house being built to replace Financier Bernard Mannes Baruch's Georgetown, S. C. hunting lodge ("Hobcaw Barony") which burned down last year (TIME, Jan. 6), was destroyed by fire.

Driving to Washington to attend the opening of Congress, Representative Clarence John McLeod of Michigan was in a car which collided with a lumber truck near Ravenna, Ohio. He received severe cuts & bruises. Cinemactress Dolores Del Rio underwent an operation in Los Angeles for a kidney ailment.

*TIME, Dec. 1 erroneously reported King Hussein's death.

/-He was Democratic Representative from 11th New York district to 58th & 59th Congresses (1903-07); municipal ownership candidate for mayor of New York 1905, Independence League candidate 1909; Independence League and Democratic candidate for governor of New York 1906.

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