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

General Secretary Arthur James ("Emperor") Cook of the Miners' Federation of Great Britain, famed unionist leader ("Thank God for Moscow!"), went to the hospital because of pains in his right leg which he had injured during his 21 years underground in the mines and hurt again when in 1926 he scuffled with non-unionists. Forthwith, surgeons amputated the leg above the knee.

It became known that when Sir Hubert Wilkins takes his old Navy submarine, rechristened the Nautilus, under the Arctic ice to seek a new way to the North Pole, there will be aboard one Jean Jules Verne, rechristener of the ship, a young Rouen lawyer, grandson of Author Jules Verne (Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea). Said Jean Jules Verne last week: ". . . My grandfather's dreams are being realized in more ways than one."

The American Jewish World sent a reporter to see the mother of Editor Michael Gold (real name: Irwin Grannich) of The New Masses, author of Jews Without Money (TIME, Feb. 24). The reporter showed the old lady a copy of her son's book, with which she apparently was unfamiliar. He read her a passage about herself: "She slaved, she worked herself to the bone keeping us fresh and neat. The bedbugs were a torment to her. She doused the beds with kerosene, changed the sheets, sprayed the mattresses in an endless frantic war with the bedbugs."

At that Mrs. Grannich cried out: "Wot, my son writes about bedbogs in my house? Minnie, hev we got bedbogs? In Delency Strit did we hev bedbogs? In Allen Strit did we hev bedbogs? ... I got to hev a son writes about bedbogs!"

The newsgatherer read another passage which said: "My mother . . . took off her shoes and stockings and walked around on the grass [in the park]."

Mrs. Grannich laughed hysterically, was too overcome to speak in English, shouted: "Ich hob aruntergenummen die shich jar alle menschen?" (I removed my shoes in front of all the people?)

Major James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney of the Connecticut Naval Militia obtained a three-year leave of absence and prepared to sail for Syria, where he will join a scientific tractor-caravan expedition being organized by Vice President Georges Marie Haardt of Citroen Corp. to follow the route of Marco Polo across Syria, Irak, Persia, Afghanistan, Tibet, China. Mrs. Polly Lauder Tunney planned to go as far as Beirut. Governor Wilbur Lucius ("Uncle Toby") Cross of Connecticut who lately majored Tunney for his staff, expressed regret.

On the occasion of the 225th anniversary of the birth of Benjamin Franklin, as many of the 73 senior and twelve junior members of a namesake club as could meet together did so. It became known that members of this club include President B. F. Affleck of Universal Portland Cement Co., Editor B. F. Betts of The American Architect, Vice President

B. F. Fairless of Republic Steel Corp., Bishop Coadjutor B. F. Ivins of the Milwaukee, Wis. diocese of the Protestant Episcopal Church, Professors B. F. Bailey

of the University of Michigan, B. F. Shambaugh of the University of Iowa, B. F. Yanney of College of Wooster, General Manager B. F. Lawrence of the Indianapolis Star, onetime (1926-30) Quartermaster-General B. F. Cheatham of the U. S. Army, Mayor B. F. Stapelton of Denver, Colo., and plain Benjamin Franklin, consulting engineer of Franklin & Co., Philadelphia.

To help a drive to get Manhattan women to knit warm clothing for the unemployed and their wives & children, Grover Aloysius Whalen cried: "If I could knit, I'd be making a master sweater for some little three-year-old girl right this minute!"

Actress Tallulah Bankhead, daughter of Congressman William Brockman

Bankhead of Alabama and niece of Alabama's new Senator John Hollis Bankhead, returned to the U. S. after eight consecutive years of playing on the London stage. Said she: "Oh, Englishmen are divine! Just divine! But I have seen and been with them so long the perspective gets dim. Now that I am away, I see Englishmen as even more divine than when I left them!"

James Matthew Maxon Jr., 21, son of Bishop Coadjutor James Matthew Maxon of the Protestant Episcopal Church of Tennessee, went on trial in Manhattan for drunkenly attempting, while a student last year at the Columbia University School of Journalism, to attack his landlady, one Rose Hickey, 53, and for slaying with a chair Printer David Paynter, 73, another boarder, who rushed to the landlady's assistance.

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