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

Henry French Hollis who, as U. S. Senator from New Hampshire, ardently supported and voted for the 18th Amendment, returned from 13 years in Paris. Said he. "It is true that I am considered by some people throughout Europe as rather an authority on wine."

A sign hung in front of New Hampshire's executive mansion in Concord read, "Puppies for sale. Mrs. John G. Winant." Breed: West Highland White and Scotch terriers. Puppies available: 60 of both sexes. Price: $100 up.

Barnard College's Dean Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve, 54, had an organ grinder haled into court when he refused to leave her window. Said he, pleading that he thought she was a student, "Ah, but the beautiful lady looked so young. . . ." Sentence was suspended.

A professor at Duke University fell into conversation with a new student named Cornelius McGillicuddy Jr.

Professor: "And so you are from Philadelphia, Mr. McGillicuddy?"

Student McGillicuddy (whose father, as most non-professors know, is famed Baseball Manager "Connie Mack" of the Athletics): "Yes, sir That is my home."

Professor: "We have quite a few Philadelphia boys with us this year. I heard yesterday that Connie Mack Jr. had decided to come to Duke. I don't suppose you know him do you?"

A Chicago shop's claim for a balance of $7,066.40 revealed that the late Edith Rockefeller McCormick spent more than $28, 000 on clothes in the 15 months preceding her last illness.

Harvard's President Abbott Lawrence Lowell, 75, was summoned to appear in a Plymouth, Mass, traffic court. Charge: cutting out of line at high speed.

Jesus Carranza, 24, son of Mexico's onetime (1917-20) President Venustiano Carranza, took his first flying lesson at Valley Stream, L. I. Four years ago his cousin, Capt. Emilio Carranza, "Lindbergh of Mexico," died attempting a non-stop flight from Manhattan to Mexico.

New York's new Mayor Joseph Vincent ("Holy Joe") McKee refused to have the traditional Mayor's lamps placed outside the large Bronx apartment house where he lives. Still shining nightly are the lamps outside the homes of ex-Mayors James John ("Jimmy") Walker and John Francis ("Red Mike") Hylan.

In Asheville, N. C. Mrs. Sarah Coleman Porter, relict of the late great short-story writer, William Sydney Porter (O. Henry), began writing "on faith" a magazine serial. She likened the writing urge to measles: "It may crop out at any time."

For 30 minutes a writ of habeas corpus, pleading the statute of limitations on his conviction for income tax law violations in 1025. 1926, 1927, got Federal Prisoner Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone out of jail. Then he was clapped back into Atlanta Penitentiary, with a hearing on the writ set for Oct. 19.

Grunted Lawyer Clarence Darrow, denying a report that he had joined a Humanist society (TIME, Sept. 26): "I don't take any stock in organized religion. Everybody knows that. I haven't joined up with any organization, so far as I remember. But I'm in sympathy with the Humanist movement and I'm just as liable to join them as not."

Arrested off Nantucket by the U. S. Coast Guard as a rum-smuggler was Skipper Louie Doucette, famed for his World War feat of rowing 230 miles in an open boat after his vessel had been sunk by a German submarine.

In the middle of the night, a bomb placed under the rear porch wrecked the Worcester, Mass, home of 74-year-old Judge Webster B. Thayer, smashed hundreds of windows in the neighborhood, roused the entire city. Five years ago Judge Thayer condemned Radicals Sacco & Vanzetti to death. Despite hundreds of threatening letters, this was the first attempt on his life. Mrs. Thayer and maid were buried under debris, taken to a hospital not seriously injured. The judge was untouched. Said he: "They can't kill me that easily. I hate to think because a man does his duty by God and country he gets this."

Co-author of a report on a case of solitary myeloma of the femur treated in the Los Angeles County General Hospital, was a member of its pathology department. Dr. Warren Gamaliel Harding II, 28 (nephew).

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