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

Hospitalized was Mrs. Edith Kermit Roosevelt, widow of Theodore Roosevelt, with a fractured hip, after falling in her house at Oyster Bay, L. I.

Playing skirts on a bagpipe that has been in the Carnegie family for 40 years, sporting kilts and the black, green and plum Carnegie tartan, barrel-chested Hugh Grant arrived in Manhattan to take part in the 100th anniversary of Andrew Carnegie's birth. Since 1921 Scot Grant has been official bagpiper at the Carnegies' Skibo Castle, has mounted the battlements every summer morning at 7:45 sharp to pipe Johnnie Cope, Are Ye Awakin'? Given time to pose for cameramen, to announce in a thick brogue, "Yes, I met Mr. Carnegie when he used to give out chil dren's feeds at Skibo," Piper Grant was bundled off by Carnegie Son-in-Law Roswell Miller to await jubilee celebrations on Nov. 25. That day Walter Damrosch will conduct a choral-orchestral program at Manhattan's Carnegie Hall; Secretary of State Hull will address a gathering in Washington's Pan American Union Building, built with Carnegie funds ; Pittsburgh will honor its onetime first citizen; more than 2,000 U. S. colleges, schools, libraries that Carnegie endowed will unveil his por trait.

Cheerfully violating a St. Paul ordinance against taking pigs into public buildings, Iowa's Governor Clyde LaVerne Herring marched into the office of Minnesota's Governor Floyd Bjornstjerne Olson to deliver a 265-lb. prize Hampshire piglet named Floyd of Rosedale which he had lost to Governor Olson in a bet on the Iowa-Minnesota football game (TIME, Nov. 18). Hardly had Pig Floyd oinked a greeting to Governor Floyd when Governor Herring was informed that one Virgil Case, Des Moines vice crusader, had got out a warrant against him for breaking Iowa's gambling laws. Governor Olson promptly promised Governor Her ring immunity from extradition if he chose to remain in Minnesota, whereupon Governor Herring countered by pointing out that nobody but the Governor of Iowa could demand that he be extradited.

"It looks," chuckled the Governor of Iowa, "as if I might have to write out a pardon for myself when I get home tomorrow."

Short-bodied, long-faced Irish Poet James Stephens (The Crock of Gold) lectured at the University of California. Excerpts: "I know when I have a poem the same way a hen knows she has an egg. . . . All perfect ladies are or should be cats; if they aren't they have lost their femininity and are partly male. . . ."

"In all English poetry written on the sea . . . not enough water is mentioned to bathe a baby."

Privately Poet Stephens commented on the U. S. Said he: "If anyone gets fresh with you in America, particularly taxidrivers, you must say--holding up two fingers--'On your way, horse face.' "

When two automobiles collided in Queens, N. Y. and one drove on without stopping, a bystander jotted down the license number, notified police. Few minutes later radios in Queens, Manhattan & Bronx police cars intoned: "Signal 32. Signal 32.* Stop car 1N-72-35 heading for New York, liable to cross Queensboro Bridge any moment." At Queensboro Bridge five patrolmen lay in wait, finally spotted car 1N-72-35 inching toward them in the heavy traffic. Training a repeating rifle on the burly driver, they ordered him out, gulped when they recognized George Herman ("Babe") Ruth.

--Meaning "Proceed with greatest caution."

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