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

Upon becoming acting director of Chicago's popular Adler Planetarium, comely Astronomer Maude Bennot, 44. remarked: "There is a field for women in engineering, astronomy and other scientific endeavors. But it is definitely limited-- mainly ... in the minds of men."

In honor of George VI's Coronation, Mrs. Sara Delano Roosevelt took spade in hand, planted two English hawthorns in the Shakespeare Garden of Manhattan's Central Park. Told that a similar spade had once been used to plant a tree there in honor of Edward VIII, the President's mother murmured: "The poor boy. He got into bad hands, didn't he? He was a naughty boy."

Onetime (1925-29) U. S. Ambassador to Spain Ogden Haggerty Hammond, 67, vice president of the ist National Bank of Jersey City, was fined $1 for walking his wirehaired terrier in Manhattan's Central Park unleashed and unmuzzled.

At the Derby Eve banquet of the Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels. Governor Albert Benjamin ("Happy") Chandler extended his thanks for the colonels' aid during last winter's great Ohio flood, announced that he would break his rule against appointing more colonels by issuing up to ten new commissions in 1938. Named new general of the order was Colonel John Jeremiah Pelley, president of the Association of American Railroads.

At a special service in Chicago's First Unitarian Church dedicated to U. S. railroaders, President Ralph Budd of Chicago, Burlington & Quincy and Albert Nathaniel Williams of Chicago & Western Indiana, worshipped, afterwards inspected a 200-lb. miniature locomotive which had been set on the altar.

At Lyme, Conn, the will of Actor William Gillette (Sherlock Holmes) was probated. Chief request was that the executors find an appreciative buyer for his castle and complete threemile, narrow-gauge railroad at Hadlyme. Wrote he: "I would consider it more than unfortunate for me should I find myself doomed after death to a continued consciousness of the behavior of mankind on this planet--to discover that the stone walls and towers and fireplaces of my home, founded at every point on the solid rock of Connecticut; that my railway line with its bridges, trestles, tunnels through solid rock . . . that my locomotives and cars, constructed on the safest and most efficient mechanical principles . . . should reveal themselves to me as in the possession of some blithering saphead."

Lest her high Indian caste be profaned by any male eyes glimpsing her while she went shopping in London, the Maharani of Jaipur, on hand for the Coronation, emerged from her hotel at 6 a.m., drove off in an automobile with frosted windows for a quick tour of London stores whose female clerks had been specially ordered to appear early.

In Paris 65-year-old Henri Guilloux, cautious chauffeur to the late King Edward VII of England, suddenly ran amok, murdered a neighbor, hanged his wife, killed himself.

While driving the truck of Humorist-Economist Stephen Butler Leacock near Brockville, Ont., Lou Pelletier was arrested for not having proper flares and clearance lights. Pleading guilty by mail. Dr. Leacock sent $19 to cover fine and costs, addressed "a humble prayer (uncopyrighted)" to the magistrate. A former resident of Montreal, prayed he: "It is not possible for me to read over the Ontario statutes regulating traffic and the various cases and precedents that interpret them. I am well aware of the legal principle that ignorantia legis neminem excusat, but I claim that it belongs with a great deal of our law . . . which the complexity of our industrial life has rendered obsolete. . . . My truck is painted green. Is that legal or is it too Irish? I have no idea. I am a member of the Church of England. Does that disqualify me from using a truck in Ontario? In what direction can I look for light? What remedy have I except to move back to the Province of Quebec, where they temper the administration of the law with the saving grace of common sense, and where a penitent tear blots out a fine."

In honor of his wife, who bore him four children, President William S. Knudsen of General Motors Corp. established the $250,000 Clara Elizabeth Fund in Flint, Mich, to be spent reducing Flint's high maternity and infant death rates. As trustees, Donor Knudsen, who reputedly conceived the idea a month ago when his Daughter Clara Augusta Vanderkloot gave birth to his first grandchild, drafted President Harlow H Curtice of Buick Motor Division of GM, Editor Michael A. Gorman of the Flint Journal and S. S. Stewart, Flint civic leader. Announced Knudsen, whose company's labor troubles last winter began in Flint: "Flint has been good to me. Part of what I have was made there and I want to give some of it back. While much of what I receive goes for taxes, my needs are simple. . . ."

In Manhattan Maribel Yerxa Vinson, nine times U. S. woman's skating champion, announced that she had turned professional, would start a national tour next November.

Tennist George Lott, angered during a doubles match at Hartford, Conn., in which he and others of the touring professional troupe were playing, cocked his fists at Fred Perry, one of his opponents, swung once before friends intervened. Apologized Lott: "We've been together so long we get on one another's nerves."

Sophomore Russell Billiu Long, 18, son of the late Louisiana "Kingfish," ably managed his Louisiana State University student government ticket on which Sister Rose Lolita, whom he got elected president of the Women's Student Association fortnight ago (TIME, May 3 ), was running for vice president. On the Statewide "Huey P. Long Day." Boss Russell Long sent sound trucks blaring about the campus, an airplane dropping leaflets from overhead, with swing bands lured 2,000 students to a rally at an armory where a $5 bill was given away every 15 minutes. The Long slate scored a clean victory.

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