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

At Manhattan hearings of rival claims of Massachusetts, Texas, Florida and New York for inheritance taxes on the $49,000,000 estate of the late capricious Colonel Edward Rowland Robinson Green (TIME, April 19, et seq.), the following evidence was introduced:

P: That every Christmas Eve Colonel Green passed in Manhattan for 15 years, he meandered up Fifth Avenue from the old Waldorf-Astoria to Central Park, slipping a $5 gold piece to each policeman he met.

P: That he wrote a letter in 1924 to the Immanuel Church, Bellows Falls, Vt., asking for his left leg, which had been amputated when he was 21, and which his mother, Hetty Green, had buried in the family plot; and that he received the leg.

P: That he wrote the following letter to his mother on Aug. 22, 1893, at which time he was president of the Texas Midland Railroad:

Dear Mama

I am 25 years old to day I think you might send me Money so I could go the Fair at Chicago in about two weeks befor the fall rush comes. It would only cost about 200.00/100 dollars. I can get Passes to Chicago and return let me Know as soon as you can so I can get redy I want to seee the Fair so bad, please let me go. Your affectson

Ned

George Bernard Shaw spiked a London rumor that his fingers were absolutely smooth, without whorls. He said: "I have fingerprints just the same as everybody else--or rather nearly the same."

Squirming in sequins on a Hollywood dressing-room chaise longue, Mae West made her first public statement on her notorious Adam & Eve travesty (TIME, Dec. 27; Jan. 24). Of NBC and Advertising Agents J. Walter Thompson she said: "They were no gentlemen. They let a lady down."

Cautious Publisher Max Schuster (Simon & Schuster), when asked by Trotskyist Author Max Eastman what he thought of the Soviet purge, said: "My own attitude is one of sympathetic bewilderment."

Called to the phone from his 44th birthday dinner, little Tsar Boris III of Bulgaria heard the voice of an old friend, Bulgarian-born Locomotive Engineer Gus Phillips of Falls City, Neb. Mr. Phillips had met the Tsar, an enthusiastic locomotive driver, on a trip to Bulgaria in 1932. After exchanging $31 worth of pleasantries, Tsar Boris rang off. Previous gifts that have passed between the Tsar and the Nebraska engineer include two miniature locomotives from Gus Phillips, 16 bottles of choice wine and a diamond stickpin from Tsar Boris.

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