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

On his 83rd birthday, bewhiskered old Poultney Bigelow, friend of the former Kaiser and inveterate iconoclast who is strong for war, dictatorship, beards, boating and hickory wagons for hauling wood and geese, gave out a written "interview," in which he asked all the questions and answered them himself. Some answers: "Stop thinking--take a holiday. . . . To go naked is wholesome, especially for nervous women."

On his travels west (by a politically straight but geographically roundabout route to the American Legion Convention at Los Angeles), New York's watchful little Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia carried two watches: one running on New York time, the other on the railroad's.

Frau Alwine Dollfuss, widow of Austria's assassinated Chancellor, was discovered living incognito with her children, Eva, 11, and Rudi, 7, in a Welsh hamlet, waiting for American friends & relatives to arrange a refuge in the U. S.

Publisher Frank Ernest Gannett, who last month declared that "no American could refuse the nomination" when British Press Tycoon Lord Beaverbrook boomed him for the Presidency (TIME, Aug. 22), announced that he could not & would not accept the Republican nomination for Governor or U. S. Senator from New York.

Asked what he was going to call the two satellites of Jupiter he discovered fortnight ago, Astronomer Seth Barnes Nicholson replied: "It seems sure that both the new satellites go around Jupiter in reverse, so my daughter, Jean, insists one of them must be named Corrigan. . . . We'll see how my astronomical associates take to Jean's idea."

Landing in Manhattan John Fitzgerald Kennedy, son of the U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, brought a gift to President Roosevelt: a harpoon gun.

In London, 82-year-old Sigmund Freud underwent an operation on his prostate gland.

On the 150-yd. water hole of the Plantation Golf Course at Boise, Idaho's tall, pink-faced Senator James Pinckney Pope, who was defeated last month for renomination, scored a hole-in-one, chortled: "I guess my luck is changed."

Donald Ray Lash, onetime Indiana University and U. S. Olympic track team star, who last year ran the fastest (8 min. 58 sec.) two-mile race in history, was one of 48 rookies named to the Indiana State Police.

Campaigning for Congress as a New Jersey Republican, Madeleine Edison Sloane, daughter of Thomas A. Edison, explained her candid candidacy: "If I had the taxes that go for this relief I could give a lot of people jobs. . . . I've never had any political life, so I don't have to worry about political suicide if I speak my mind."

Because he owed her $40,000 under a separation agreement, Alfred Cleveland ("Blumey") Blumenthal, Broadway promoter, was sued in Manhattan by his wife, onetime Follies Girl Peggy Fears. Said his sworn counter-complaint: "She tried to compel me to associate with her." Mourned Peggy Fears in Hollywood: "I'm down to my last string of pearls."

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