"Names make news." Last week these names made this news: At a formal dinner of the American Women's Club in Paris at which he was guest of honor. Writer Hendrik Willem Van Loon appeared in a business suit, said that a dentist to whom he owed $720 had not sent him a bill, had attached all his clothes instead. Banker Otto Hermann Kahn sold "St. Dunstan's," his 12-acre estate in aristocratic Regents Park, London (until 1928 used as a hospital for blind British War veterans) to the London Daily Mail's Publisher Harold Sidney Harmsworth, Baron Rothermere of Hemsted. Banker Kahn's 800-acre estate at Cold Spring Harbor, L. I. is also for sale. Frank Jay Gould, famed expatriate, youngest son of the late Jay Gould, leased his depression-starved $5,000,000 baccarat casino in Nice to a French syndicate for 2,500,000 francs ($150,000). Because the French Government has decided to legalize roulette, long forbidden in France, he did not lease his smaller casino at Juan-les-Pins, will run it himself. In Brooklyn Federal Court, Columbia University's portly President Nicholas Murray Butler* impassively heard attorneys argue his case to recover $325,000 in securities from the Harriman National Bank & Trust Co., whose onetime President Joseph Wright Harriman, now awaiting trial for falsification of his books, is Dr. Butler's good friend. In January 1932, to protect $125,000 worth of securities which he had bought. Dr. Butler borrowed $126,000 from Bankster Harriman, turned over his securities to the bank. Bankster Harriman used them to raise a $150,000 loan for his wife. Because he had originally given the securities, now worth $325,000. in trust, Dr. Butler demanded that the bank return them. But the bank's Attorney Abraham Freedman urged that the bank should keep them in payment for Dr. Butler's note, Mrs. Harriman's loan. Said he: "Dr. Butler is a good businessman. He is nobody's fool. He saw the possibility that these securities might fall. . . . And if Dr. Butler were sold out he would be even-- his securities gone but his debts wiped out. He took the gamble and should be made to stick to his bargain." Judge Grover M. Moscowitz continued the case. At a Louisiana fair, when Huey Pierce Long, introduced as "the greatest statesman in the U. S.," denounced the Recovery program, one Sammy Klotz of Napoleonville yelled: "What about that Long Island affair?" [TIME, Sept. n]. Surrounded by state police and his bodyguard. Senator Long yelled back: "Come down here and I'll Long Island you. I won't have five or six men jump on you the way they did on me and then run off. I'll man-to-man it with you." On her 78th birthday, Elizabeth Mead Johnson, mother of NRA's General Hugh Samuel Johnson, told Okmulgee, Okla. reporters: "I have been that boy's mother for 51 years, and I thought he was the greatest thing I ever saw when I first laid eyes on him. He has always been great to me. The NRA has made a new person of me. I thought I was an old grandmother, lying on the bed waiting to die. . . . An other thing I want to tell you mothers: if you are not public speakers you'd better start taking lessons now. for you never know what some of these sons and daughters will do to make you famous." In behalf of one Ben M. Jones, film projectionist who fled a South Carolina prison camp where he was serving a life sentence for murder, curvesome Film Actress Mae West wrote to California's Governor James Rolph Jr.: "One of the boys who worked with me at a Hollywood studio is in a terrible jam and I would appreciate your refusing extradition. Now, Jim, you know that I know men and if there ever was a man who appeared innocent, it is Jones . . . " Governor Rolph signed the extradition papers."

Hidden under the dashboard of an auto mobile belonging to Socialite Gurnee Munn, onetime New York Stock Exchange member, a London garage mechanic found a red tube shaped like a fountain pen. Curious, the mechanic pressed a trigger on it, sprayed his eyes with mustard gas, burned them severely. Haled before sobersided, seventyish Henry Campbell Alchorne Bingley, Magistrate of Marylebone Police Court, Socialite Munn told him that the tube was a tear gas gun, that "in America people are allowed to carried such guns for protection." Magistrate Bingley snorted: "I dare say, Luckily this is not America," fined Socialite Munn 5.-L-

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*Defeated for Republican county committeeman in last month's New York City primaries by a stenographer.

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