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

Recently the Ladies' Home Journal asked its readers to name what they considered just cause for divorce. Their choices: adultery, desertion, cruelty, habitual drunkenness. Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt would add another: incompatibility. Wrote Mrs. Roosevelt in a Ladies' Home Journal article: "Divorce is necessary and right, I believe, when two people find it impossible to live happily together. ..."

When Alexander Kerensky, whose tremulous Provisional Government was overthrown by Lenin and friends in November 1917, visited the U. S. eleven years ago, people were surprised to find he was still alive. He predicted hopefully that the Communists would be overthrown within two years. Last week he visited the U. S. again. People were surprised to find he was still alive. Asked by reporters when he expected the Communists to be overthrown, he replied: "I am no prophet."

Among those who watched Arturo Toscanini conduct the last of his eleven NBC broadcasts, was James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney, director of American Commercial Alcohol Corp., New York Shipbuilding Corp., Morris Plan Industrial Bank of New York, lecturer on Shakespeare, former heavyweight champion. Impressed by Mr. Toscanini's vigor, he ejaculated: "It would take four heavyweight champions to do it like he does."

The Philadelphia Inquirer reported that Mrs. Ethel du Pont Roosevelt had reserved a room for July at the Philadelphia Lying-in Hospital.

Prisoners in Alcatraz are aflowed one visitor each month. On the last day of February and the first day of March, Prisoner Al Capone was visited by his wife Mae. His brother Ralph stood around outside. Back on the mainland they were cornered by reporters. No, Al was not insane, they said. He was just broken in spirit. "Well, what do we do to get rid of you?" said Ralph. The reporters said they should pose for a picture. "Half my face,'' said Mae, wearily. Photographers then snapped the first picture (see cut) of Mae Capone since Al was sent to jail in 1931.

Near the Stoke Poges churchyard in Buckinghamshire where Thomas Gray in the 18th Century wrote an elegy, there is a brand-new golf course. There Joseph Patrick Kennedy on the fourth day after his arrival as U. S. Ambassador to Britain (see p. 19) scored a hole-in-one. Dazed, he exclaimed, according to British reporters: "Just fancy! I had to come all the way over here. . . ."

In Munich, a reception for sleek Baron Gottfried von Cramm, Germany's best amateur tennist, was suddenly canceled. Reason: Tennist von Cramm had been arrested on suspicion of violating paragraph 175 of the Reich criminal code, which refers to moral delinquencies.

His sensitive ear tired of being buttered with effete Oxfordese, Professor Lloyd James, linguistic adviser to British Broadcasting Corp., recommended that the BBC's radio talkers copy the diction of Franklin D. Roosevelt. "It is disturbing," snorted Professor James, "when a man stands with his back to the 'fah,' and announces that he got some 'tah' on the 'tahs' of his 'cah.' "

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