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

For the first time in more than 300 years, so Japanese courtiers said, the officially divine Emperor, the Son of Heaven, went out last week "alone."' That is to say, Emperor Hirohito, climbed into a small motorboat, sternly commanded his entourage not to follow, and chugged off for the afternoon. At the helm was a common fisherman who did not count and two other common fishermen crouched beside him in the stern. Upon the prow sat the Divine One, eagerly peering out upon the waters through his spectacles for interesting specimens of seaweed. When the motorboat returned His Majesty had almost a bucketful of likely seaweed and several shells, thus suggesting that he must have landed somewhere without a proper guard.

The death mask of the late Queen Louise of Prussia, the famed flute of Frederick the Great, a pair of duelling pistols given by Napoleon I to General Kleber, and many another trinket formerly preserved at Klein-Glienicke Castle, Potsdam, Germany by Prince Friedrich Leopold Hohenzollern, cousin of the former Kaiser, went on the auction block. While plebeian agents refrained from bidding, Representatives of Kaiser Wilhelm bought Frederick the Great's gold watch. Prices: watch, $1,190; pistols, $500.

Visiting a county fair on an island off the west coast of Florida, Henry Ford was served fish for dinner. He ate, thirsted, demanded: "Is there any water around here?"

An acquaintance replied: "I don't know about that. You may have to take booze."

"I'd dig a well first!" snapped Dry Mr. Ford.

Comedienne Beatrice Lillie (Lady Peel) was among the early-morning guests at Club Calais, one of the many nightclubs in Manhattan. A man passed her table, stumbled over her feet. He proved to be Ben ("Brownie") Bronston, whom the New York Daily News described as "a pal of Waxie Gordon in the Jersey booze racket." That newspaper reported the following conversation:

Bronston (to Lady Peel's escort): Tell that dame to keep her feet under the table!

Lady Peel: Oh, pulEEZE!

Bronston (to her): And you button up your kisser. What do you think this joint is--the Ritz? You highbrow dames that go slumming give me a pain!

Three big male spectators thereupon seized Bronston, threw him out. He barked from the lobby: "But I'll come back here some night with my mob and toss this camp out into the street!"

Asked whether he thought that Scotland Yard could clean up Chicago, famed Inspector Cecil Bishop said last week: "The gangsters would be easy. It would be the police that the Yard would go after. . . . The U. S. police, on the whole, are very efficient, but many of them are also very crooked."

Lionel Hallam Tennyson, Baron Tennyson, grandson of the late great poet, arrived in Manhattan for a brief visit. He had heard aboard ship that Lady Astor made a speech in the House of Commons charging that the English cricket team was recently defeated by the Australian team because the English team had drunk too much. Lord Tennyson was a member of the English team. He cried to newshawks: "This was false. . . . The members of our team when in training do not drink, or if they drink, it is comparatively little. . . . What does Lady Astor know about cricket?"

Canadian-born Mezzo-soprano Jeanne Gordon, formerly of the Metropolitan Opera, was added to the victims of intensive reducing. Contralto Gordon lost 30 lb. in three weeks, then collapsed and was taken to a sanatorium.

At Toronto Dr. Charles Herbert Best, co-discoverer of insulin,* was demonstrating the use of a drug to some medical students. He proposed to inoculate each member of the class with a slight dose of the drug; to prove it unharmful he gave himself a shot in the arm first. Immediately he was ill, had to retire for a rest of several hours. Investigation disclosed that the label on the bottle of the drug indicated a solution 100 times less powerful than it was.

Though long known to his intimates, it first became known to the public, in which are many thieves, that genial Professor William Lyon Phelps of Yale leaves the door of his New Haven home unlocked, so that friends may come in and borrow the books he is sent for review, of which there are several hundred stacked on a table adjacent. An old red setter named Rufus (which color-blind Dr. Phelps says he sees march about as a green dog) guards the books, knows the patrons of this "lending library," barks at the approach of any unaccustomed person.

An airplane, a pistol, handcuffs, an automobile and two accomplices were the equipment Albert Kelsey Darling, Philadelphia socialite, took along with him when he planned to kidnap his estranged sweetheart, Miss Elizabeth Converse, from her Rosemont, Pa. home. Next day the New York Telegram headlined: SOCIAL-REGISTERED LOCHINVAR IN . . . JAIL.

To see Cinemactor Charles Spencer Chaplin, who has not returned to England, his birthplace, in seven years, 8,000 Londoners flocked to Paddington Station and so milled, crushing one another, that 33 women among them fainted. To see him Prime Minister MacDonald called at an hotel, waited almost an hour, missed him and summoned him to Chequers (country house of British Prime Ministers). "Knighthood for Charlie!" whispered gossips in the street.

Cinemactor Douglas Fairbanks, arriving at Manila on the world-cruising Belgenland en route to hunt big game in Cambodia (TIME, Jan. 12), caused a complete cessation of business along the waterfront as 8,000 eager people flocked to the pier.

In front of a cinema camera in Shanghai, Aimee Semple McPherson, who wants to "get close to the women of the East" (TIME, Feb. 9), led a revival-meeting of Chinese, most of whom did not understand English. Afterward she announced her intention of buying some Shanghai property and erecting a permanent "Angelus Temple," smaller than but similar to her edifice in Los Angeles.

In Milwaukee an agile girl child had herself photographed swinging from trapeze rings by her heels and fingers, draped around a clothesline post, and proudly coasting on a tricycle. She told newsgatherers: "For the sake of my dear aunt, I hope to have her name again adorn the billboards the world over." She was Lillian Leitzel Pelikan, six, niece and namesake of the famed aerial acrobat who fell to her death in Copenhagen fortnight ago. (TIME, Feb. 23).

Those undergoing surgical treatment included: Rene Lacoste, famed French tennis player (appendectomy); Joseph Potter Cotton, U. S. Undersecretary of State (opening of a knee for drain-insertion, third operation in a fight to check a spinal infection--TIME, Feb. 23); one-time American League Baseball President Byron Bancroft ("Ban") Johnson (blood transfusion for weakened condition due to amputation of an infected toe last month--TIME, Feb. 2); Samuel Hill, 73, son-in-law of the late Railroad Tycoon James Jerome Hill (intestinal operation).

*With Drs. Frederick Grant Banting and John James Rickard MacLeod.

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