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

Requesting each recipient to contribute to the book's second edition, Virginia's Governor John Garland Pollard sent to friends 500 copies of his "Connotary." a compilation of "definitions not found in dictionaries, collected from the sayings of the wise and the otherwise." Samples: Alimony, a fine levied on a man guilty of matrimony. Horse Sense, just stable thinking. Diplomat, a man who remembers a woman's birthday and forgets her

On a Hollywood set, a 150-lb. studio lamp fell, struck unconscious, badly bruised Mary Pickford. Husband Douglas Fairbanks quickly revived her.

Into New York Harbor steamed the storm-battered S. S. Majestic (see p. 28), bearing $15,000,000 in gold, one of the year's great shipments. Down to meet the Majestic went John Pierpont Morgan, not to see the gold but to greet his guest, Rev. Cyril Argentine Alington, headmaster of Britain's famed Eton College and chaplain to King George, invited to the U. S. by the English Speaking Union's Kentucky branch. In Chicago's Probate Court it was discovered that an old will of the late Utilities Magnate Clement Studebaker Jr., which left $5,000 to his longtime chauffeur Peter Peterson, had been filed by mistake. A later will left the entire estate of some $2,000,000 to the widow, Mrs. Alice Rhawn Studebaker. Chauffeur Peterson went home, shot & killed his wife, his 20-year-old daughter, himself.

In Manhattan, Federal Judge John Munro Woolsey ordered expatriate Poet Walter Lowenfels, co-winner (with e. e. cummings) of the 1931 Aldington Poetry Prize, to pay attorney fees of

$3,500 and other costs of his plagiarism suit against Authors George S. Kaufman, Morrie Ryskind, et al. He charged that their Pulitzer Prize-winning Of Thee I Sing was drawn from his U.S.A. With Music. Commented Judge Woolsey: "In this case, as is usual in plagiarism cases, obscurity is taking a long shot at success. Having failed to reach his mark, the plaintiff must be made to pay for the expense to which he has put the defendants. ... I am faced with page after page of alleged parallelisms of phraseology. Obviously, the plaintiff cannot claim a copyright on words in the dictionary, such as names of seasons."

In Brookline, Mass'. Mrs, Harvey Williams Gushing, wife of the famed brain surgeon, mother of Mrs. James Roosevelt, lost a $4,000 pin, got it back by tacking a notice on a post near her home.

In Manhattan, influenza forced these actresses and singers to cancel scheduled performances: Eva Le Gallienne, Judith Anderson, Alice Brady, Lily Pons, Mary Garden, Also ill last week lay: President Thomas Garrigue Masaryk in Prague and Preacher Harry Emerson Fosdick in Manhattan, both with influenza ; Governor Charles Wayland Bryan, of coronary artery disease, in Lincoln, Neb.; Showman Samuel Lionel ("Roxy") Rothafel, after an abdominal operation, in Manhattan.

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