Names make news. Last week these names made this news: Wealthier than most college presidents is Columbia's Nicholas Murray ("Miraculous") Butler, with a salary which has been estimated to be as high as $100,000 a year. He is regarded as a shrewd businessman, has been a director of New York Life Insurance Co. for 18 years. Two years ago Dr. Butler closed out a brokerage account of some $300,000 on which he owed his broker $126,000. He borrowed the $126,000 on an unsecured note from Harriman National Bank & Trust Co., at the same time depositing his securities with the bank for safekeeping, not as collateral. The bank's president, his friend Joseph Wright Harriman, took the securi ties and, without Dr. Butler's knowledge or consent, used them to raise a $275,000 loan. He wrote Dr. Butler thanks for the securities "which you have loaned me." Last week Bankster Harriman was in Bellevue Hospital too ill to stand trial for misuse of his bank's funds, and Dr. Butler was in Federal Court, Brooklyn, suing to recover the securities from Harriman National's conservator. Defense counsel asked: "Why didn't you kick up a row then [when Harriman sent his thanks]?" Replied Dr. Butler: "One of the embarrassments of being a gentleman is that you are not permitted to be violent in asserting your rights."

Judge Grover Moscowitz opined: "If the bank chose to select as its president a man who was dishonest and a thief, that is not Dr. Butler's fault." He ordered the securities returned. A speech to the Massachusetts Civic League by Dr. Abbott Lawrence Lowell,

Harvard's good, grey President-Emeritus, reminded people that he is now president of the Motion Picture Research Council.

Dr. Lowell flayed block-booking of films as an exhibitor's excuse for showing objectionable pictures. Rebutting Dr. Lowell from New York, Secretary Carl Elias Milliken of the Hays organization observed: "Several years ago a cancellation clause was inserted in block-booking contracts permitting exhibitors to reject up to 10% of the films contracted for. . . . The managers used this clause to reject the so-called highbrow pictures."

To study political economy at Columbia University, Ali Baba, 20, son of the Sheikh Mahumud of Suleimaniye, Irak, arrived in Manhattan from Alexandria, Egypt, where he spent the last four years in college. Said Ali Baba: "Please let me say that no years shall ever compare with the five years I was with the great chieftain, my father, when he made war in the Kurd Mountains."

Visiting in Washington was Alabama's portly ex-Senator James Thomas ("Tom-Tom") Heflin, whose fear and hate of Popery caused him to bolt the Democratic candidacy of Al Smith, plump for Hoover in 1928. To inquiries about his law business in Lafayette. Ala, he replied: "Business is good. I'm at peace with the world." "How about you and the Pope?" he was asked. Senator Heflin grinned broadly, "I'm at peace with the Pope, too!"

Clad in white-collared grey uniform, Kathleen Knox, 21, socialite grand daughter of the late Philander Chase Knox. onetime Senator from Pennsylvania, Attorney-General in the McKinley and Roosevelt Cabinets, Secretary of State under Taft, was found running errands as a page girl in Pittsburgh's Union Trust Co., controlled by Andrew William Mellon. Canny Miss Knox refused to discuss her job, remarked: "I'm interested in learning banking or I wouldn't be here."

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