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

Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. gave his opinion last week of bathing beauty contests. It was: "No self-respecting girl wants to be paraded before a multitude and dished up before the public gaze." Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. last week advertised his new girl-show Show Girl. He said: "150 GLORIFIED GIRLS IN THE FLESH AND BLOOD."

Gabriele d'Annunzio, Italy's poet-soldier, now 65 and bald even to the eyebrows, had his appendix removed last week. The operation required 45 minutes. Poet-Soldier d'Annunzio took only local anesthetic, lay with a silk handkerchief over his face, talked, laughed, devised and recited verses. Later his personal physician, Dr. Alessandro Duse, found his recuperation normal.*

Eugene Ysaye, 70, Belgian violinist, lay abed last week in Brussels, his right leg amputated and he, diabetic, in grave condition.

Alfred Emanuel Smith, tanned, wearing a cinnamon suit and tie, was reinstalled in Manhattan last week as a director of National Surety Co., a position which he held for two years prior to 1922. He wandered about inquiringly, said: "I'm looking for the cigars. I won't be a director in any company where they don't keep the cigars on the table."/-

When Sir Wilfred Grenfell left Wiscasset, Me., last fortnight aboard his motor yacht Maraval, bound for his annual summer missionary work in Labrador, he took as usual several college boys to do Labra-chores. This year two of them are Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller (Dartmouth) and Laurance Spelman Rockefeller (Princeton), grandsons of John Davison Rockefeller.

In 1926 Frank Tinney, famed comedian, suffered a complete nervous breakdown. Speechless, gibbering, he seemed unlikely to recover. Last week he was singing and joking nightly at La Victorie night club, Atlantic City, N. J. Credit for the Tinney progress is due to Eddie Cassaday, oldtime minstrel and Tinney crony, and Professor Edwin Burket Twitmyer, head of the psychology department of the University of Pennsylvania. Said Dr. Twitmyer: "When he first came to me Tinney couldn't walk on a wide board. A ladder was impossible. I taught him to walk, stepping between the rungs. Now he can climb a ladder." Said Comedian Tinney: "Sure

I'm coming back. I've got an ambition. I'm going to play the 'misery' on the Scotch bagpipes. When I can do that I'll be on my way."

Mr. & Mrs. James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney, domiciled on the Adriatic Isle of Brioni, expected a guest last week--Bernard F. Gimbel, oldtime Tunney friend, President of Gimbel Bros., famed Manhattan department store. In order that Guest Gimbel might arrive in comfort Mr. Tunney arranged to have the liner Vulcania, en route from Trieste to Manhattan, make a special detour to Brioni. ... In the U. S., Tunney attorneys filed an answer to the $500,000 breach of promise suit brought against Mr. Tunney by Mrs. Katherine King Fogarty, divorced wife of a Fort Worth plumber (TIME, June 3). They declared that Mr. Tunney, out of "good business judgment," had paid $35,000 to Mrs. Fogarty for one release statement, a nominal dollar for another. The New York World intimated that the "nominal dollar" had in reality been $27,000, making a total of $62,000. In the current Delineator Yale's Prof. William Lyon Phelps quotes Mr. Tunney on fisticuffing: "'There are five qualities necessary ... to be champion of the world (strength, supple agility and speed, courage, ability to take punishment, complete control of the nerves). ... I happen to have them all.'"

*The name Duse is significant in the life of Poet-Soldier d'Annunzio. A tempestuous lover, the most famed of his many ladies was the late great Actress Eleanora Duse, no relation of Dr. Duse. /-Other National Surety directors: Parmely Herrick, son of the late U. S. Ambassador to France Myron Timothy Herrick; Coleman du Pont; W. Averell Harriman; Percy Avery Rockefeller.