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

William de Lancey Kountze, 55.

Manhattan socialite, board chairman of Devoe & Raynolds Co. (paints, varnishes), went pheasant hunting with a party of friends near the Mellon-owned Rolling Rock Country Club at Ligonier. Pa. Some birds flushed, the whole party fired. Hunter Kountze, 30 yards in front, received a full charge of no. 6 shot in his stomach, was rushed to a hospital.

Tardy commuting students of the Cheney, Wash. Normal School brought this scribbled excuse:

"Dear Teacher, please excuse Myrtle Baker and her friends for being late to school. Train late on account of being held for me.

"Sir Harry Lauder"

While bathing, Pope Pius XI smelled gas, rang for his chamberlain, had the windows opened, himself escorted to another room. An electric water heater was ordered for the papal bathing chamber.

Lion Feuchtwanger, German novelist (Jew Suss, Success), got publicity by displaying the U. S. slang he had picked up en route to the U. S. from novelist Joseph Hergesheimer. Said he: "The trip was okay. It was swell and it was not lousy."

Irked by taunts that the lionesses of his Missouri safari (TIME, Oct. 17 & 31) were "young and kittenish," Denver M. Wright, St. Louis manufacturer, announced he would try it over. Declared he: "If I do it again I'll get a couple of old, vicious ones. I'm the sort of a fellow that likes to do a thing, once he sets his mind to it." Next day he was reported off on a "quail hunt," taking with him two lion cubs younger than the first pair.

In Moscow the director of Soviet theatres announced that Zany Arthur (Harpo) Marx, maddest of the four brother zanies, would be invited to panto mime in Russia next spring. Star passenger of the Grace Line's new Santa Rosa, maiden-cruising this week from New York to Seattle, is Mrs. Louise Vallejo D'Emparan, 91, only living daughter of General Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo, prominent in California's Mexi can regime (ended 1846) and founder of Santa Rosa, Calif., whence the ship's name. Strong, silent, homely Film Actor Gary Cooper asked the New York Supreme Court for an injunction restraining Sheffield Farms Co. (dairy products) from further circulation of an advertisement bearing his name and picture. He claimed damage to his reputation because he was represented as drinking milk "to build up his health and strength."

Major General James Dinkins, Chief of Cavalry of the United Confederate Veterans, has so enjoyed reading "The Spillway," a colyum in the New Orleans Item, that with a fine flourish he commissioned its conductor, William G. Wiegand,

"colonel and assistant inspector general

on my staff."

In Manhattan Helen Keller received the Pictorial Review Achievement Award of $5,000, promptly turned it over to the American Foundation for the Blind as a trust fund to be distributed at her direction. Pleaded she: "[I ask] people to be friends to those who dwell in the silent dark, to do something to break the monotony of days that are exactly alike in every detail. A Braille letter, a flower, a chat, a little walk--what unimaginable joy these little things bring to those utterly cut off from human intercourse!" In Guild Hall police court, London began the trial of Novelist Compton Mackenzie, charged with violation of the dread Official Secrets Act. In his Greek Memories, withdrawn a few hours after its recent publication, he had revealed official telegrams which came to him as Wartime director of Britain's AEgean Intelligence Service. After 90 minutes of preliminary evidence, the hearing was adjourned until Nov. 24, then to be resumed in private. In London Patricia Wallace, daughter of the late Thriller-Waiter Edgar Wallace, was ordered to pay a -L-54 dressmaker's bill at the rate of -L-2 a month, or spend ten days in jail. James John ("Jimmy") Walker, accompanied by Betty Compton and her mother, landed in France, said he had been offered $50,000 to write his autobiography for a U. S. magazine, motored to the Nice home of Writer Frank Scully, possible collaborator. Snapped Banker Charles Gates Dawes, 67, to Chicago newshawks: "My retirement is permanent. I am out of politics for good."

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