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

Fred Andrew Stone and Will Rogers, funnymen, gave Washington's Smithsonian Institution an oldtime nine-passenger Wild West stagecoach, built by a "G. Gerald, Blacksmith, Concord, 1825."

Major William Kennelly, barrel-chested president of the New York Athletic Club, saw from his yacht a canoe upset in the wake of a Manhattan ferry, dived to the rescue of the floundering canoeist, one Don O'Reilly, saved his life.

Three weeks ago two veiled women, wife and daughter of Bolivia's ousted German army builder General Hans Kundt (TIME, July 7), sped under escort provided by German diplomacy through pointing, jeering crowds in the streets of La Paz. Leaving behind them the General, with cries for his head still ringing in their ears, they fled by motor to the Peruvian border and safety. The General too escaped and is now said to be making for Hamburg. Last week Frau Gertrude Kundt and Frauelein Renate arrived in Manhattan. Said they: ''It [Bolivia] is a terrible place. One day it is 'Viva General Kundt.' The next day it is 'Abatto! Abatto!'* ... A man gets tired of war sometimes."

Senator James Thomas ("Tom Tom") Heflin of Alabama, who mortally hates and fears the Roman Pope, suffered bruises, cuts, a sprained wrist, when the motor in which he, his son and some Ku Klux friends were riding smacked into a telephone pole near Decatur, Ala.

At Litchfield, Conn., Mrs. Nora Mary McMullen Lee, onetime (1900-12) wife of Secretary of the Treasury Andrew-William Mellon, said she would not remarry but for convenience would again be known as Mrs. Mellon. "Now that Mr. Lee is no longer here," said she, ''there seems no reason for continuing the name. And, too, my son [Paul Mellon] is very anxious that I should take his name."

Victoria Eugenie Julia Ena Maria Christina, Queen of Spain, sat down at a table in a Biarritz cafe. A headwaiter frothed up, was sorry but this table was reserved for the Queen of Spain. Victoria rose, smiled, left the place. Mrs. Nicholas Frederic Brady, executive Chairman of Girl Scouts of America, widow of the late New York utilities Tycoon, was reported in the New York World as having lately talked with Pope Pius XI about entering a European convent to take a nun's novitiate, then founding a religious order of her own and becoming its mother superior. "Preposterous!" said Mrs. Brady's sister, Mrs. John Cavanagh of Norwalk, Conn. "A lie and sheer nonsense!" announced Mrs. Brady's secretary in London.

One Charles Kaiser of North Castle, N. Y., complained to the town board that a dog belonging to Walter Sherman Gifford, president of American Telephone & Telegraph Co.. had visited his chickenyard, killed 75.

Thomas St. John Gaffney, onetime U. S. Consul-General in Berlin, returning from a visit with Wilhelm Hohenzollern at Doorn, deflated the legend that the ex-Kaiser continually chops wood for exercise; explained that, since his withered left arm hampers his axe-work, "what the Kaiser does is take the pieces of wood in his right hand and toss them with unerring accuracy into the barn loft."

*Down with him! Down with him!

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