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

Anticipating his guest's fondness for bridge, young King Leopold (35) of the Belgians set up card tables in his Brussels Palace at the official reception for aged King Gustaf (78) of Sweden.

Baffled when he received as a contribution to the March 4 Roosevelt Victory Dinners a $1,000 check signed "Alfred M. Landon,' Democratic National Chairman James Aloysius Farley, observed: "That does seem to make it unanimous," soon learned that the check had not been signed by the defeated GOPresidential nominee or by anyone else who had an account at the designated bank.

Relaxing from his job of being Cuba's Dictator, Colonel Fulgencio Batista attended a Havana cock fight with a group of friends, including cultural Carlos Mendieta whom Batista made Cuba's President for a while in 1934.

British Foreign Secretary Captain Anthony Eden went to Monte Carlo for a fortnight's rest.

Already jailed 18 months for embezzling funds of Paris' Socoa Electric Co. of which he was board president, onetime (June 9-14, 1924) Premier Frederic Franc,ois-Marsal of France was sentenced to two years more for fraudulent distribution of dividends.

Mammysinger Al Jolson was for the third time elected mayor of Encino, a Los Angeles suburb.

Celebrated for arresting and jailing Communist Presidential Nominee Earl Browder when he attempted to campaign last autumn in Terre Haute, Ind. (TIME, Oct. 12, 1936), Mayor Sam Beecher and his wife, Terre Haute's controller, were indicted on charges of misfeasance, re-leased on $2,500 bond each.

Irked when a naval officer danced up to him in Los Angeles' Cocoanut Grove and abused first his cigar, then his character, Band Leader Benjamin Anzelvitz (Ben Bernie) dropped to the dance floor, knocked out his tormentor.

Mrs. Evelyn Hall Warburton petitioned the Bucks County (Pa.) court at Doyleston to stop her parents-in-law from selling the 94-acre Saracen Farm where her late husband Barclay Harding ("Buzz") Warburton Jr., grandson of Philadelphia's late merchant John Wanamaker, accidentally shot himself while hunting two months ago (TIME, Dec. 7).

Hurled against the side of her cabin during a heavy sea, Mrs. Clara Clemens Gabrilowitsch, daughter of the late Humorist Mark Twain and widow of the Detroit Symphony conductor, left the storm-tossed S. S. Rex in Manhattan with her arm in a sling, her head bandaged.

Crowned Queen of the Mardi Gras Carnival was pretty Jessie Wing Janvier, daughter of Judge George Janvier of the Louisiana Court of Appeal, previously picked as Carnival Queen of the Twelfth Night Revelers and the Elves of Oberon. Her consort, Rex, Lord of Misrule, was President Albert Barnet Paterson of New Orleans Public Service, Inc.

Inspecting Washington's District Jail,; golfing District of Columbia Commissioner George Edward Allen spied his Negro caddy in jail for disorderly conduct, obligingly paid the $3 fine necessary to effect his release.

Motoring home after a Chicago theatre party, Steelmaster Joseph Turner Ryerson was robbed at gunpoint of $15, his guest Stockbroker Barrett Wendell Jr. of $20, his wife of two diamond bracelets worth $7,000.

Pleading he had only $4-a-month income from renting two front rooms in his bleak one-story shack at Holmesville, Neb., toothless 84-year-old Jacob A. Brugh, grandfather of Cinemactor Arlington Brugh (Robert Taylor), applied for Relief. Unable to afford anything to eat but coffee, bread and oatmeal, his savings exhausted, gnarled Grandfather Brugh showed newshawks two letters he had written Grandson Taylor last December asking for money. The letters had been returned marked "unclaimed." Snapped red-faced Robert Taylor reputedly earning a $3,500-a-week Hollywood salary: "I can't understand it."

In Manhattan famed Socialist Norman Mattoon Thomas regretfully announced that he was not the Norman M. Thomas listed by the House of Representatives Ways & Means Committee as receiving a 1930 salary of $16,600.

In Los Angeles oldtime Cinemactress Mary Pickford underwent a gallstone operation.

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