"Names make news." Last week these names made this news:

Colyumist Arthur Brisbane, who has never touched tobacco but who as a youngster delighted the late Charles Anderson Dana by recognizing Chateau Yquem by taste, made his first visit to one of Manhattan's 50,000 speakeasies, found in it material for a half-column description. Excerpts: ''It is one o'clock in the day and somewhat surprised you see every seat occupied, practically all of them by young girls, chatting with the bartenders, taking cocktails or 'absinthe drip,' if you know what that is.* Some experienced, with mucous membranes well seasoned, take 'old fashioned whiskey cocktails. One hundred thousand dollars were spent in decorating the inside of a small dining room."

In an appeal for support, signed by Rabbi Nathan Krass, Patrick Joseph Cardinal Hayes, Rev. Harry Emerson Fosdick and Bishop William Thomas Manning, Manhattan's Committee of Fourteen (antivice) declared the Depression is forcing many young women "either directly into prostitution or at least into borderline occupations from which the ranks of prostitution are most generally recruited," and that the underworld is ''taking advantage of this situation."

Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh to the American Council of St. Luke's International Medical Centre at Tokyo: "I have no hesitation in saying that St. Luke's Hospital is the most outstanding American development I saw while in Japan." Whereupon the Council at once elected him a director, and Council President George Woodward Wickersham exclaimed: "Well, boy, now we've got you."

To Mrs. Katharine Dexter McCormick, whose husband, Stanley McCormick, was 25 years ago declared incompetent, a Chicago court awarded an allowance of $25,000 a month for 1932, the same amount which Mrs. McCormick received last year. Informed that Mr. McCormick is now recovered enough to manage his own establishment near Santa Barbara, court directed an administrator of the estate to visit Mr. McCormick, determine whether he needs a proposed new $400,000 dwelling to be called "Stone House."

James A. ("Jim") Reed was in court in Jefferson City, Mo., arguing the $1,000,000 suit of the wealthy Snyder Brothers against Union Electric Light & Power Co. when a whispered message interrupted him. He strode to the bench, asked to be excused on urgent business, hurried by automobile to Kansas City. There he learned that his good friend Mrs. Nelly Quinlan Donnelly had been kidnapped with her Negro chauffeur. Onetime Senator Reed was shown a letter just received from Mrs. Donnelly by her husband Paul:

"These men . . . want $75,000--$25,000 in $20 bills, $25,000 in tens and $25,000 in fifties. . . . If you refuse to pay I will be blinded and the Negro killed. You will be told where to take the money. They want money and you might as well give it to them."

The Senator thundered: "These people undoubtedly have Mrs. Donnelly in their power. If they will deliver her safely they can have the $75,000. . . . I will say further that if there is a single hair of her head harmed I will, and Mr. Donnelly will, spend the rest of our lives running down the culprits and securing for them the extreme penalty of the law, which, in Missouri, is hanging."

Immediately the kidnappers, who had their victims bound and blindfolded in a dirty farmhouse, while they fiddled with a radio, learned that they had to reckon with Missouri's mightiest, most belligerent, most implacable man. Without further attempt to collect ransom they hastily bundled Mrs. Donnelly and the chauffeur into an automobile, turned them loose on a suburban road where police found them.

Exulted red-faced, white-thatched "Jim" Reed: "Now all we need to crown this is a hanging."*

Two hours before the Princeton Triangle Club show, Spanish Blades, was scheduled to begin in Montclair. N.J., the truck containing costumes and make-up was stolen, presumably by belligerents in a truckmen's feud. On the insistence of an audience which refused to be put off, the clubmen went on with their show, scored a smashing hit with their trousered chorus "girls," stubble-chinned "leading ladies," undisguised blond "Spaniards."

Mrs. Clarence C. Dill, wife of the U. S. Senator from Washington, famed 20 years ago as the suffraget "General" Rosalie Gardiner Jones, asked a New York court to compel a division of her family's rich holdings on Long Island, New York, Arkansas and Washington, left by her father the late Oliver Livingston Jones. Co-executors protested that none of the parcels would be sold profitably because of the Depression. To that Mrs. Dill replied the property at Cold Spring Harbor, L. I. could easily be sold at a profit because Cold Spring is a "millionaire colony'' and "millionaires have not suffered from the Depression." She added: "The estate is easily worth $4,000,000."

Perturbed by a lack of pockets, Representative Ruth Bryan Owen of Florida invented a knapsack to contain briefs, bills and other necessities. To make it harmonize with feminine attire, she hung it from one shoulder by a strap with a silver buckle.

As an inducement to time payment purchasers of second hand automobiles at 25% to 50% discount, Studebaker Sales Co. in Chicago, offered to give away from 10 to 100 shares of common stocks including Allegheny Corp., Grigsby-Grunow Co., Wabash Railway Co., Remington Rand Inc., Curtiss Wright, Armour "A", R. K. 0. Corp., Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paid & Pacific Railroad.

Upon Pullman Co. the Mexican Government levied a fine of 50,000 pesos (some $20,000). Last October, it was charged, Mexican Foreign Minister Genaro Estrada boarded a train at Monterey to return to Mexico City, found two Americans in a drawing room he had reserved and paid for. They refused to surrender it. Foreign Minister Estrada & wife slept in berths.

Ill lay: Showman Lee Shubert, in Manhattan, of a glandular ailment; Banker Paul Moritz Warburg, in Manhattan, of a "breakdown of the eye nerves"; Jane Addams, famed social worker, in Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, recovering rapidly from an operation for ovarian cyst; Cinemactress Marjorie White, in Philadelphia, of severe injuries suffered in an auto crash; Cinemactress Pola Negri, in Santa Monica, Calif., following a critical operation for an intestinal obstruction; Senator Tasker Lowndes Oddie of Nevada, of a broken collarbone suffered during his morning canter, when his mount stumbled and fell on him; Biographer Giles Lytton Strachey, of paratyphoid fever; Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, British statesman, of bruises and a slight case of pleurisy contracted after he was struck by an automobile last fortnight (TIME, Dec. 21). His nose and forehead bandaged, Statesman Churchill left the hospital in a wheelchair after having received Mario Contasino, unemployed youth who ran him down through no fault of his. To Driver Contasino, who had called daily to inquire of his condition, Statesman Churchill autographed and presented his latest work, The Unknown War.

* Marie by slowly pouring a liqueur glass of absinthe over a lump of sugar into a tumbler of water.

*Thus was heightened a longtime friendship between Senator Reed and Mrs. Donnelly, who attended the 1928 Democratic National Convention to help boom him for President. Her rise to prominence began with small scale experiments in selling a type of housedress ("Nelly Don") which she had designed. Now she heads the Donnelly Garment Co. which has grossed as high as $3,750,000 in a year.

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