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

As the latest stunt in a lively series which has kept Texas in the nation's eye for weeks, the able publicity staff of the Texas Centennial Exposition not only sent the 21-year-old Texas Quadruplets, Mary, Mona, Leota & Roberta Keys, to visit the Dionne Quintuplets, but persuaded frosty-haired, stately old Pat Morris Neff, onetime (1921-25) Governor of Texas, to escort them. Pat Neff is president of Baptist Baylor University, where the four Keys Quadruplets are juniors. At Callander, Ont. the Keys' chorused, after seeing the Dionnes: "We are really terribly thrilled!"

Last winter Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, who now makes her home with friends in Northampton, Mass., offered for sale "The Beeches," where she and the 30th President lived after they left the White House. Some of the household furnishings she put in storage. Last week she was traveling in Europe when the residue odds & ends were put up at auction in a Northampton gymnasium. Auctioneer George Howard Bean had sent engraved circulars to about 1,500 clients, announcing that each of the 400 items of Coolidgeana offered would be accompanied by a certificate of authenticity. Only 400 bidders showed up for the auction. Dampened, Auctioneer Bean clambered to his dais, banged a gavel, stuck out a brawny arm holding a letter franked by Mrs. Coolidge, yelled for bids. It went for $3. Followed a litter of glassware, vases, pitchers, jars, hot plates, which excited little interest. Then up came a famed old bookcase used by Calvin Coolidge at Amherst. "Who'll give me $50?" boomed Bean. "Five dollars," said a voice. It went for $33. Wiping his brow, Auctioneer Bean grumbled: "It's not an antique now, but heaven knows it will be someday!"

Equally meagre were bids on everything else, apparently because each bidder did not care what he bought so long as Calvin Coolidge once owned it. Best price of the day was $96 for a mahogany dining room set. Most satisfied buyer was a hotel man who purchased enough for a complete "Coolidge Room." As the five-hour proceedings dragged on, various local Coolidge friends stood about scowling blackly. Snorted Judge Henry P. Field, in whose office Calvin Coolidge got his first job: "It's a disgrace to Northampton!" Equally uncomfortable as the parade of shabby possessions trickled past, Lawyer Ralph W. Hemenway, Calvin Coolidge's onetime partner, explained they were "just a bunch of junk."

Suddenly stricken with appendicitis in Mexico City, President Lazaro Cardenas of Mexico was operated on at a public hospital, would not allow the removal of the other patients from the public ward in which he was bedded.

Asked what was his favorite dish, North Carolina's Governor John Christoph Blucher Ehringhaus replied: "The boy in me always craves ice cream."

In San Francisco, Australian Harry Bridges, leader of that city's bloody 1934 general strike (TIME, July 23, 1934 et ante), quietly filed his third set of naturalization papers since his arrival in the U. S. in 1920 by jumping ship. Both the others had been allowed to lapse.

Last year, world-traveled Author William Buehler Seabrook published Asylum, a vivid description of his seven-month stay in a sanitarium where he was cured of alcoholism. Last week, hearing that Author Seabrook had returned to the sanitarium, a newshawk telephoned his Rhinebeck, N. Y. farm, got an explosive denial. Bawled Author Seabrook: "I'm getting sick of that rumor! Every time anyone sees a tough drunk they say it's me, and I'm sore!"

In Washington Sportsman Winston Frederick Churchill Guest asked the District of Columbia Supreme Court to order the Bureau of Immigration to grant him a "derivative citizenship." In his petition the ranking U. S. poloist stated that, although he was born in England in 1906, his mother, Amy Phipps of Pittsburgh, never swore allegiance to the British Crown, separated from her British husband in 1919 and returned to the U. S. Having voted, sworn allegiance to the U. S. when he joined the Reserve Officers Training Corps at Yale, run for the New York State Senate in 1934, Poloist Guest was dismayed when he was declared an immigrant alien last year, advised by the Immigration Bureau to take out naturalization papers.

Because 12-year-old Cinemactor FrecU die Bartholomew earns some $1,250 a week in Hollywood, the Canadian Government announced it would withdraw his $180 annual pension, given him as a dependent of Father Cecil Llewelyn Bartholomew, who lost a leg in the War.

"For distinguished services rendered to humanity," the National Institute of Social Sciences presented a gold medal to Banker J. P. Morgan. In return, he volunteered the Morgan formula for success: "Do your work; be honest; keep your word; help when you can; be fair."

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