"Names make news." Last week the following names made the following news:

Viscountess Byng of Vimy sold last fortnight 130 large silver dinner plates, two mighty silver salvers, and two gigantic 18th century candlesticks, all superfluous portion of the -L-750,000 ($3,650,000) estate recently left by her late Greek uncle, Merchant Pandeli Ralli (TIME, Oct. 1).

The late Madame Marie Jeanne Becu Du Barry, mistress of France's King Louis XV, had several beds. The most famed is to be put on the auction block, along with other antiques, in Paris, on Dec. 6, by the present owner, Comtesse de Segur (Cecile Sorel), actress of the Comedie-Franc,aise.

The Earl of Birkenhead, Great Britain's retired Secretary of State for India, last week, was appointed a director of Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd., of which Britain's Chemical Tycoon Baron Melchett is head. Director Lord Birkenhead will receive an annual salary of $10,000 plus one-half of one per cent of the profits. Last year this percentage would have represented more than $100,000, since I. C. I.'s profits were $20,164,585.

The Rev. John Roach Straton, pastor of the Calvary Baptist Church of Manhattan, purchased, last June, a hotel at Greenwood Lake, N. Y., which he planned to use as the base of a summer Bible camp. Last week, the hotel burned to the ground. Dr. Straton and his wife, who were spending a few days at their summer home at the other end of Greenwood Lake, rushed to the hotel in time to hear the final crackles of the fire. Like Senator Heflin of Alabama, Dr. Straton smelled a plot by his enemies.

The New York World reported last summer that liquor had been sold over the bar of Dr. Straton's hotel; this caused Dr. Straton to start a $200,000 libel action against the World. The case has not yet been settled.

Max C. Fleischmann, yeastman, ordered last week, a $1,000,000 yacht, to be built at the Krupp works in Kiel, Germany.

Dr. William Williams Keen of Philadelphia, who is "profoundly grateful to my Heavenly Father for good "health and the ability to work even after having travelled so far in my 92nd year," chose a startling title for his 22nd book, which he published last week. The title: The Surgical Operations on President Cleveland in 1893 (Lippincott, $1.50). Little known it still is that President Cleveland ("Grover the Good") developed cancer of his left jaw while he was stoutly persuading Congress to demonetize silver.* Dr. Keen, Dr. John Frederick Erdmann and the late Dr. Joseph D. Bryant (Cleveland's medical attendant and intimate friend) cut out the diseased bone during two operations. An artificial jaw of vulcanized rubber supported the cheek in the natural position and prevented it from falling in. So artful were the operations and so secretly done that the country, panicky over money, knew nothing of it all.

William Gibbs McAdoo did not attend the wedding of his daughter, Sally, in Washington, D. C., last week, because he was suffering, in Los Angeles, an attack of influenza.

Charles Augustus Lindbergh, contributory star in the Coolidge foreign policy, arrived by plane in Mexico City to be house guest of U. S. Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow, brightest star in the Coolidge foreign policy. In the Morrow home is a talented daughter, Anne, 22. Mexico City newspapers, putting two and two together, made one. They carried stories saying that Anne Morrow and Col. Lindbergh would soon be married in Mexico City. The stories were denied and cabled throughout the U. S.

Lottie Pickford, lesser cinemactress, sister of Mary Pickford, attended a Los Angeles night club, left it at 2 A. M. with one Jack Daugherty. Soon lost, they stopped to ask directions to Hollywood. Four men came up and knocked-out Mr. Daugherty with a blackjack. Then they grabbed little Lottie Pickford and drove away with her, beating and kicking her, taking $75 away from her. They did not get her diamond rings because she hid them in her shoes. While they were trying to rip a platinum bracelet from her wrist, she screamed at them in Spanish. This caused them to stop molesting her and set her free. . . . Thus, the story, as told next day by little Lottie Pickford.

Gloria Swanson, interviewed for London's weekly Sketch, said: "Skyscrapers drain their inhabitants of colour, and gradually kill them. . . . Half of the women of America are sex-starved. Their husbands cease to be lovers almost as soon as they are married. . . . The sex-starvation of those women is the explanation of a hundred American phenomena which might otherwise puzzle you. It explains their strange crusades, their extraordinary cliques and fetiches. . . . When I grow old, I want to have an old brain as well as an old body. . . ."

Ignace Jan Paderewski celebrated, last week, in London, his 68th birthday. The United Press reported: "He is still holding audiences spellbound with his magic touch on the ivory keys. . . ."

Margaret Anglin, famed actress, in Philadelphia, hurt her foot. Therefore she resigned from the cast of Macbeth as produced by George C. Tyler, with scenery designed by famed Gordon Craig. Florence Reed, famed actress who has only once played a Shakespearian role, succeeded her when Macbeth opened in Washington, prior to engagements in Manhattan, Boston and elsewhere.

Theodore and Kermit Roosevelt, sons of the late famed hunter-President, sailed from Manhattan on the Homeric, with animals in mind. They plan to penetrate the unexplored lands along the Mekong River in Tibet, where, among other things, they will seek to capture a takin, rare ruminant, something like an antelope and something like a goat.

Gifford Pinchot, onetime Governor of Pennsylvania, lean and active at 63, purchased, last week, a three-masted schooner on which he will sail in March for the South Sea Islands and the Galapagos, where he will fish, observe and collect deep sea life and works. This, said Mr. Pinchot, will be the fulfillment of a dream he has dreamed since college (Yale) days. Said charming Mrs. Pinchot: ". . . Yes, Gifford should have been a doctor." Mrs. Pinchot expects to go with him on the cruise of dreams.

Harry Ford Sinclair, oilman, heavy contributor to the Republican war chest of 1920, and John Jacob Raskob, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, celebrated a day of mutual goodwill. It was Father & Son Day at the Newman School in Lakewood, N. J., where Messrs. Sinclair & Raskob and many another bigwig met sons at school.

H. L. Mencken was mentioned last fortnight by the Communist New Masses as follows: "George Sterling committed suicide about a year ago, in San Francisco, after a night spent in conversation with H. L. Mencken."

* President Grant had cancer of the throat. A curious historical coincidence: the great problem of his incumbency was also fiscal--to reestablish the gold par value of U. S. greenbacks.