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

Planting a dummy on a sharp curve of a Palo Alto, Calif., highway, members of Stanford's Theta Xi Fraternity hid in the bushes, waited to see what would happen. Around the curve came a large sedan, struck the dummy squarely, sliced it in half, ground to a stop. A woman in a high state of nerves climbed quickly out of the driver's seat. Theta Xi's funsters blinked, gulped, ran away when they recognized Mrs. Herbert Hoover.

At Harvard Law School, Professor Thomas Reed Powell, topflight authority on Constitutional law, was asked whether he would take the Massachusetts teachers' oath to support the Constitution (TIME, Oct. 14). Replied he: "Certainly I'll support the Constitution. The Constitution has been supporting me for 20 years."

Up in the mail of Massachusetts Registrar of Motor Vehicles Frank A. Goodwin turned a letter from Mrs. Constance Lodge Williams, daughter of the late Senator Henry Cabot Lodge. Tart Mrs. Williams wanted to know why the Registrar had not "disciplined" John & James Roosevelt for driving through a red light into a train last month (TIME, Oct. 21).

Hotly retorted Republican Registrar Goodwin : "I am under the impression that you are more interested in politics than you are in making the highways safe. . . . You and the rest of the women who think they are politicians are responsible for the ruination of the Republican party. ... I am running this office, and you just take care of your own business."

Accompanied by his daughter Violette, Vicomtesse de Sibour, and by a French-Swedish actress named Marcelle Rogez whom he plans to bring to the attention of Hollywood, Harry Gordon Selfridge,

U. S. founder of London's biggest department store, landed in Manhattan. Of the Roosevelt Administration, he said: "When businessmen find an experiment does not work, they drop it immediately." Few days later he arrived by airplane at Oshkosh. Amid a wild honking of horns he motored to his birthplace at small Ripon, Wis., had a park named for him, received an L.H.D. from Ripon College. That night, at a banquet during the course of which an overtaxed lighting system thrice broke down, white-thatched Dr. Selfridge delighted Riponese by his vocabulary of U. S. slang.

Ill with influenza and nervous breakdown, irrational, almost penniless, sued for back alimony by Natalie Talmadge Keaton, recently divorced by Mae Elizabeth Scribbens Keaton, long-faced Funnyman Joseph Francis ("Buster") Keaton was bundled off in a straitjacket to the psychopathic ward of a Sawtelle, Calif., hospital.

Into Detroit's public welfare office marched dusky, buxom Mrs. Lilly Brooks, mother of Negro Pugilist Joe Louis and eight other offspring. Under the superintendent's nose she shoved a check for $269, equal to the relief money which had tided her and her brood over a hard period in 1927-28. Said she: "Joe wanted it paid back."

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