"Names make news." Last week the following names made the following news: Margaret Rose was chosen as the name for the month-old daughter of the Duke & Duchess of York (TIME, Sept. i). She will be christened at Buckingham Palace in October. Robert Tyre Jones Jr., practicing near Philadelphia for the U. S. Amateur golf championship at Merion Cricket Club (TIME, Sept. 22), denied he had suffered an attack of appendicitis. Said he: "I just had a stomach ache." He moved the scene of his practicing from the Merion club to parts unknown, to escape mobs of admiring gawkers. Later he returned to Merion, to take low score honors for the first day of the qualifying round with a 69 (one under par). "This cane," bellowed Boston's Mayor James Michael Curley on Boston Day last week, in a voice audible for blocks along Boston's Tremont Street, "is one of three known as Constitutional Big Sticks. Three canes were cut from an elm tree which grew on the spot [battlefield of Lexington, Mass.] where the movement for the establishment of American liberty had its inception. These canes are given to the.-- three foremost defenders and upholders of liberty and the Constitution in America: William Randolph Hearst, William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, and Osee Lee Bodenhamer, national commander of the American Legion." Said Foremost Defender Hearst: "I do not know whether I fully deserve it. . . ." A few days later Chicago's City Council ordered Anglophobe Mayor William Hale Thompson to invite Francophobe Mr. Hearst as Chicago's official guest. Marguerite Beery, wife of Cinemactor Noah Beery, who last fortnight disappeared from the Beery ranch near North Hollywood, turned up at the home of Los Angeles friends, telephoned her husband that she was safe & well. Declared Cinemactor Beery who had called in the police at the behest of worried Noah Jr., 17: "I want the proper authorities to in- vestigate this matter and prosecute anyone guilty of enticing or luring Mrs. Beery from her home. ... If there was a man involved in the affair, I might lose my temper. Mrs. Beery is a sick woman and has been under the care of an alienist for three years. She is subject to spells of sickness that affect her mind." Next day Mrs. Beery countered that she had been to Nevada with Cinema Director Raymond Wells on "purely a business matter." Added she: "Will you please ascertain what reward Mr. Beery offered for my discovery? If it is sufficiently large I will have myself brought in" at once." Mrs. Elizabeth Reeve Cutter Morrow, wife of the retiring Ambassador to Mexico and Republican candidate for Senator from New Jersey, saw her first book, The Painted Pig (Knopf, $2), off the press. For children from five to ten years, The Painted Pig is illustrated with 15 color pictures and is dedicated to Constance, youngest Morrow daughter "who helped me buy a painted pig in the market of Cuernavaca." At Mexico City Mrs. Morrow met Artist d'Harnoncourt who showed her his famed collection of 850 Mexican toys. She begged him to write a story about them. Instead he illustrated the book which she wrote. The story: Pita, "a little Indian girl who lived in Mexico between the smoking mountains and the cactus with red flowers," and her brother Pedro go to the market place to buy a painted clay pig bank. Pita has a pig, Pedro wants one like it. Pancho, the toyman (drawn from a mason who worked on the Morrow weekend abode at Cuernavaca) has no pigs, tries to sell them instead straw horses, jumping jacks, grotesque clowns, birds shaped from polished gourds. Disappointed, Pedro tries to make a pig himself, fails miserably. After many months Pancho makes Pedro a special pig. Specimen of the text: "He [Pita's pig] was painted yellow, with pink roses on his back and a tiny rosebud on his tail. He looked fat, but he was fed nothing at all. In his side was a small slit where you were supposed to put pennies, but his little mistress never had a centavo to drop into the hole; so his savings-bank stomach remained permanently empty." Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow (see p. 16) agreed to be best man at the wedding on Oct. 4 of his nephew, Lawyer Richard B. Scandrett Jr. of Manhattan, and Mary Emma Landenberger, of Philadelphia, newspaper reporter. Legend: Lawyer Scandrett first met Reporter Landenberger when she came to interview him professionally. When she left, said he: "There's the girl I'm going to marry."

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