Had they been interview, some people who figured in last week's news might have related certain of their doings as follows:

Alfred E. Smith, Governor of New York: "Followers of law and politics have often observed that the question of pardon is one of a governor's most serious problems, as one pardon inevitably leads to a host of applications for others. Last week I was presented with 10,000 signatures urging clemency for Brooklyn Patrolman John J. Brennan, 28, condemned to the electric chair. On Jan. 2 one Samuel Krainen, shopkeeper, called at a Brooklyn police station, and identified Brennan as one who had created a disturbance in his shop when drunk. As a sergeant was thereupon removing Brennan's shield, Brennan fired a revolver at Krainen, killing him. Last week, during the long day preceding the hour for his electrocution, Brennan kept asking his guard: 'Is there any news yet from Albany?' But I sent no word. He was electrocuted."

Charles M. Schwab, (Bethlehem Steel): "In Baltimore, I addressed 800 members of the Association of Commerce at a dinner tendered me in recognition of the wealth I have brought the city with my Sparrows Point steel plants, of which the payrolls now total 25 millions per annum. I told them that I had just consented to spend two millions on my dry docks in Baltimore and had no single interest in the city to which I was not ready to devote every dollar I could borrow. I said that in ten years Baltimore would eclipse even Pittsburgh as a steel centre. 'Some of you,' I said, 'thought I was dreaming when I spoke in 1916 of our plans for Sparrows Point. You have seen them realized. . . . You will see this dream of mine tonight come true when, ten years hence, I come again among you.' "

Samuel Matthews Vauclain, President Baldwin Locomotive: "Since Nov. 1 hundreds of thousands of Baldwin Locomotive shares have been bought and sold on the stock exchanges. During a brief day last week 44,000 shares changed hands. This is mysterious because only 200,000 Baldwin Locomotive shares exist, and of these only 30,000 to 35,000 are floating on the market. The situation carried the stock from 117 on Nov. 1 to 163% last week. Rumors sped. To one (that my concern will sell its Philadelphia real estate) I replied, 'Real estate is not on my brain. In the month of November I took orders for four miles of locomotives and my job is to build them.' There was another rumor of a stock market corner in Baldwin. I laughed; 'The only corners I know of in Baldwin are the four corners on every Baldwin stock certificate.' I was wrong, for Arthur W. Cutten, quiet calculator in Chicago, had built a corner in Baldwin. Newspapers reputed his profits to be $10,000,000."

Joseph E. Widener, Philadelphia millionnaire art collector: "Directly following the marriage last week of my daughter, Fifi (see p. 32) it was reported from Manhattan that my agent had purchased, for $100,000, a rug once belonging to the late Sultan Abdul Aziz of Turkey. The rug has a background of moss-green creepers, with orange-red stems, among which deer, gazelles, sheep, goats are pursued by lions and leopards.* There is a centre medallion of rose-crimson, with vine traceries in pink and silver around four hawklike birds."

Judge Elbert Henry Gary: "I like to talk about Wheaton, Ill., where I spent my early boyhood. So I gave myself double pleasure last week by entertaining Harold E. ("Red") Grange, Wheaton-raised professional football player, at dinner at my Manhattan home."

A. Atwater Kent, manufacturer: "Last week, I myself administered final tests to the millionth radio set made in my Philadelphia factory since 1922. Addressing my assembled employes, I said: 'It is difficult for me to find words with which to express my pride and gratification in this moment. I feel as if I wanted to hip-hip-hurrah. I want to throw my hat up in the air. I am happy. . . .' "

George Fisher Baker, 86: "The four richest men in the U. S. are Andrew Mellon, Henry Ford, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., myself. My potency comes from my chairmanship of the First National Bank of Manhattan and my directorates in numerous corporations, notably U. S. Steel, New York Central and American Telephone & Telegraph. So when there is a rumor that I am ill, Wall Street becomes excited. There was such a rumor last week. A reporter came hurrying to interview me. He peered at every wrinkle in my old face. He ogled every hair of my mutton-chop whiskers. 'Are you ill, Mr. Baker?' he queried. 'No,' I said. 'Why, I had lunch with a pretty woman today.' '

Roald Amundsen, polar explorer: "Disgruntled, again, by statements by General Umberto Nobile of Italy, companion and flight officer of Lincoln Ellsworth and myself last spring when we all crossed the North Pole in the dirigible Norge, I cabled resignations for Mr. Ellsworth and myself from honorary membership in the Norway Aero Club, under whose sponsorship Colonel Nobile is lecturing in the U. S. Colonel Nobile, grieved, protested his latest remarks had been fair. Mr. Ellsworth, surprised by my action, said: 'I have no bone to pick,' but approved his proxy resignation, saying of me: 'He and I are as one person.' Only the day before, Mr. Ellsworth had been decorated by Norway."

President Mustafa Kemal Pasha of Turkey: "One of my semi-official news organs recently referred to the day when the Allied troops quietly withdrew from Constantinople (TIME, Oct. 15, 1923) in accordance with the Treaty of Lausanne. It spoke of 'that imperishable day when our heroic warriors drove from Constantinople the Allies, those disgusting savages, the scum of 72 nations.' '

Princess Chivekiar, onetime wife of King Fuad of Egypt: "I am for the fourth time a bride. Last week students of politics noted with humorous speculation that after I and my third husband were lately divorced, I secretly married Rafet Pasha, onetime leader of the opposition party in Turkey, who, one of the few plotters against Mustafa Kemal Pasha to escape hanging, wisely resigned his seat in the Turkish National Assembly after his acquittal from complicity in that unfortunate affair. With him I started at once from Constantinople for Egypt, where Fuad, my onetime husband, rules autonomously, with British guidance. I was recently fined ten Turkish pounds, for insulting the U. S.-born Princess Saida Chakir, divorced wife of John D. Spreckels of San Francisco."

Harold Van Buren Magonigle, architect: "Governors of the Kansas City (Mo.) new War memorial, which I designed, have just notified me that they will not approve my nomination of my wife as sculptor for an elaborate mural relief, The Story of Civilization, which would require five years' work and $160,000 to set forth. This was to be the world's largest frieze, with 500 figures, and for five years I have constantly stressed its importance. It was said that too much space was given in the plans to Mediterranean civilization, not enough to Missouri Valley; that I should not have appointed my wife; that her reputation is 'not particularly widespread.' Viewers of the design noted little differentiation in the human figures of various epochs, King Khammurabi of Babylonia, 2250 B. C., strongly resembling Mohammed, 600 A. D."

* With slight variations, a familiar Persian pattern for rugs (TIME, Oct. 11).