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

In Annapolis, because jokers signed his name to a telegram inviting Franklin Delano Roosevelt to fish as guest of a non-existent Annapolis Bluefish Association and the President-elect accepted, Boyd A. Farinholt announced he is forming an Annapolis Bluefish Association.

Among the names borne by millions of European males, including the Kings of Italy, Belgium and Bulgaria, is grand old Mary. In Prague last week the Czechoslovakian Supreme Court made name-history, handed down a decision barring Czechoslovaks from having "girls' names" if they are male--and vice versa. "Every given name," ruled the Supreme Court, "must indicate with clarity the individual's sex." Cited by the Supreme Court as particularly obnoxious and explicitly barred to Czechoslovak males are all combinations of names containing "Mary," such as the common "Erich Maria" and "Ludwig Maria." Reason why so many parents name their sons "Mary" is of course that by this means they place him under the spiritual protection of the Virgin. From Bremerhaven sailed Professor Albert Einstein & wife, bound for California's Institute of Technology. Said he, leaving Berlin: "That insignificant, irritable visa incident will not spoil the pleasure of the voyage. . . . It's all forgotten. The trouble with hearings of that kind is that you don't realize until some time has passed just where the inquisitor is trying to get under your skin. I suggest in the future Consuls put pins in their victims' chairs so they will feel stuck from the beginning." In Washington, when hearings on the annual Postal Supply Bill were made public, it was learned that the Post Office Department had traded $1,700 and eight used automobiles for a $3,500 Lincoln, employed it for general utility purposes, bought a second $3,500 Lincoln near the close of the year. Explained Postmaster General Walter Folger Brown: "When I looked at the [first] car, I found it was, too small for practicable use on formal occasions. I found that a man of my height, and I am below the average, could not wear a top hat and sit in this car." House and Senate obligingly approved the Postmaster General's purchase of a topper-fitting automobile. In New York, Wilfred John Funk, light-versifying president of Funk & Wagnalls Co. (publishing, Literary Digest), announced his list of the ten most beautiful words in the English language--dawn, hush, lullaby, murmuring, tranquil, mist, luminous, chimes, golden, melody. Said he: "Beauty of sound is not enough. Mush is a word pleasant to the ear, but its connotation is ugly. Beauty of meaning is not sufficient. Mother is one of our most loved words, but it lacks euphony." Meeting in Manhattan's Empire State Building, members of the National Transportation Committee were annoyed by a sound of hammering outside their room. Chairman Calvin Coolidge excused himself, went out, returned. The noise continued. Growled Committeeman Alfred Emanuel Smith, Empire State Co. president: "I'll find out how long this fellow will be rebuilding this structure." Soon the hammering ceased. Said James John ("Jimmy") Walker

in Nice: "The suggestion that I might become an Ambassador is flattering, but running an embassy is an expensive business. Only the wealthy can pretend to such a post." The onetime Mayor declared that after a long rest he would probably represent Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cinema interests in France. Said MGM's President Nicholas M. Schenck in New York: "This is absolutely news to me." Meanwhile a Brooklyn judge appointed a receiver to sequester all Jimmy Walker's property in behalf of his creditors.

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