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

Said British Writer Cosmo Hamilton: "The younger generation of men has got the rickets. . . . Man should be a beautiful creature. Man should be dominant. The present transcendency of women indicates the decline of the cycle." He illustrated his point as follows: "Once there were two frogs. . . . Hopping over the grass, they arrived at a dairy. Excited and curious, they hopped to the edge of a vat of cream. He . . . tumbled in, struggled a bit and died. But she jumped in and began to kick. And in the morning the dairyman found her, weary but triumphant, sitting on top of a pat of butter."

Sidney Franklin (Frumkin), Brooklyn matador, after receiving a good-luck charm from the Jewish Theatrical Guild of Manhattan, sailed back to Spain for more bullfights.

Romping with schoolmates at Andover, Ringgold Wiltner ("Ring") Lardner Jr., 14, son of the writer, fell from a third-story window, broke his shoulder.

Objecting to such placards as: BABE RUTH QUITS; BABE RUTH GOING OUT OF BUSINESS, George Herman ("Babe") Ruth sued one Abraham Nocks, purchaser (for $1,100) of the Babe Ruth's Shop for Men Inc. on Broadway, Manhattan. Mr. Ruth's complaint said that the defendant's use of his name was of a "vulgar, blatant type, repugnant to good taste."

After news had leaked out that Idaho's Senator William Edgar Borah had obtained employment in Russia for a jobless young U. S. engineer, the Senator was deluged with requests for similar service.

Returning to her Windsor, Ont. hotel from a party, Lady Mary Heath, famed British aviatrix, stopped her car in traffic when she bruised her arm trying to switch on the automatic windshield wiper. A constable arrested her, jailed her overnight on a charge of drunkenness. She told reporters : "Honor bright, I wasn't drunk. Why, I wasn't even cheery. . . . I had two beers and a small whiskey at the party, and everyone knows that one can't become intoxicated on that!"

Racing by airplane from Roosevelt Field, N. Y. to the bedside of his father in Florida, Editor Bolton Mallory of Life ran into a heavy rainstorm, was forced down at Winston-Salem, N. C.

Charles Gates Dawes, U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, obtained a leave of absence from his post to return to Chicago, apparently to help his brother Rufus promote the 1933 World's Fair.

For the same reason that Albert Einstein came to the U. S.--to peer into the Universe from Earth's chief eye, Mt. Wilson Observatory at Pasadena--Sir James Hopwood Jeans, Britain's great descrip-live mathematician, arrived with his wife in Manhattan and hurried to a transcontinental train. He was interviewed concerning his postulation that the Universe is running down. "How soon?" asked the reporters. "It won't be soon," he replied. "A million million years is a long time."

Robert Nelson Stanfield, onetime U. S. Senator from Oregon, was seriously injured by an automobile near Huntington, Ore. Witnesses told this story: Mr. Stanneld came upon John Stringer, foreman of a sheep-ranch, who had parked his car near where some one had cut a wire fence. An altercation arose as to who had cut the fence and whether or not it should be closed before Stringer could drive through. Suddenly Stringer climbed into his car, let in the clutch and, spurting, ran Mr. Stanfieid down.

From a group of Girl Scouts, their famed "Buffalo" (Mrs. Herbert Clark Hoover) received a sundial on which was inscribed: My face only marks the sunny hours; what can you say of yours?

Federal Judge John M. Woolsey put an end to the $2,250,000 suit for plagiarism brought by Authoress Gladys Adelina Selma Lewis ("Georges Lewys") against Playwright Eugene O'Neill, his pub lishers and the Theatre Guild. Miss Lewis had charged that in O'Neill's Strange In terlude the motif of "selective parent hood" was stolen from her privately printed book The Temple of Pallas-Athenae, which pictured a temple in Paris at which perfect young males are -- in Judge Woolsey's words -- "kept at stud as professional fathers." Playwright O'Neill's lawyers easily convinced the court he had never heard of Author Lewis or her book until reading in the Paris Herald of her suit.

H. R. H. Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden underwent an operation for hernia at Sophiahemmet Hospital, Stock holm.

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