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

For five minutes the widow of "Wiley Post remained alone in a boxcar at Bartlesville, Okla., wept as she took leave of the crated Winnie May, off to Washington's Smithsonian Institution.

Omitted from this year's New York Social Register are: Cornelius ("Neely") Vanderbilt Jr., author of Farewell to Fifth Avenue; Countess Barbara Hutton Haugwitz; Mrs. Marjorie de Loosey Oelrichs Duchin, wife of Band Leader Edward Frank ("Eddy") Duchin; Henry Huddleston Rogers III, at whose Downingtown, Pa., farmhouse Torchsinger Evelyn Hoey was shot dead.

While driving past Massachusetts Institute of Technology's swank No. 6 Club in Cambridge, Mass, one night, many a motorist was startled by a loud thwack on the roof of his car. Finally one driver stopped, found that his car had been dented, notified police. Few minutes later two patrolmen in a cruising car pulled up in front of "No. 6 Club, waited to be thwacked, were not disappointed. Spying a raised, unlighted window on the third floor, they sneaked upstairs, found Cornelius Van Shaack Roosevelt, 19-year-old son of Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, a friend named Peter de Florez, an air gun modeled on a German Luger pistol, a supply of pellets twice the size of ordinary BB shot. At the police station whither he was taken on a charge of assault & battery, Sniper Cornelius Van Shaack Roosevelt was asked to identify himself, replied: "The other Roosevelt, for a change." He was released on $500 bail.

Ill lay Mrs-Edith Kermit Roosevelt,

widow of Theodore Roosevelt, with a fractured hip (TIME, Nov. 25); Daughter-in-Law Mrs. Grace Lockwood Roosevelt, of appendicitis; Granddaughter Sarah Alden Derby, of "rundown condition" following an appendix operation last spring; all on the same floor of a Glen Cove, L. I., hospital.

Howard Vincent O'Brien, columnist of Publisher William Franklin Knox's Chicago Daily News, printed the following opinion of his boss as a Republican candidate for President: "He believes sincerely that, as President, he could alter the course of Government. I do not. I believe that, when put to the test of use, Mr. Knox's platform would remain as shiny and unmarred as the Democratic platform has been. I believe that a new hat on the White House hatrack will change the flow of events little more than a new president of Tel. & Tel. would affect our use of the telephone.

"I am convinced that Frank Knox would be a good President, efficient and worthy of all trust; but I am equally convinced that as President he would do things that are utterly abhorrent to him now, and perforce leave undone practically all of the things he now advocates."

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