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

An oldtime coach once owned and driven by Horace ("Go West, Young Man") Greeley was put up for sale at Las Animas, Col., to liquidate a ware-houseman's lien.

Calvin Coolidge was assessed $962 on his new home "The Beeches." It was the first Northampton (Mass.) realty tax he has paid. For 25 years he was a renter.

Club Members of New York for 1930-31, out last week, revealed that Harry Payne Whitney had dropped four clubs (St. Nicholas, Piping Rock, Jockey, Creek) since last year, joined two (Brook & Yale), leaving Brig. Gen. Cornelius Vanderbilt III undisputed No. 1 New York clubman with 16 memberships-- Racquet & Tennis, Union, N. Y. Yacht, Union League, Century, Tuxedo, Brook, Metropolitan, Piping Rock, Turf & Field. Engineers, Seawanhaka-Corinthian Yacht. Automobile Club of America, Yale, Sleepy Hollow, Knickerbocker.

Tied with Mr. Whitney for second place with 15 clubs are George Fisher Baker Jr., and Clarence Hungerford Mackay. Charles Oliver Iselin, 14 clubs, is third.

John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, honeymooning in Upperville, Va., with his bride of a fortnight (former Mary Elizabeth Altemus of Philadelphia), wanted to see his Airedale bitch Jill, sent to Manhasset, L. I. for her. Jill was driven to Roosevelt Field in her master's Rolls-Royce, flown to Virginia in her master's Sikorsky.

Marshall Field III and his bride of two months (former Mrs. Dudley Coats of London), honeymooning through Africa in an amphibian airplane which crashed in the surf at Sidi Barrani on its way to them three weeks ago, crashed last week 850 mi. south of Khartoun en route to Kenya Colony. All escaped injury.

"Mr. Haskell ran into my hand and broke my wrist. His eye hit my fist." Thus last week deposed Showman Arthur Hammerstein concerning a brawl involving himself, Jack Haskell, dancemas-ter for Hammerstein's recent Manhattan musicomedy Luana, and Harold Rand, a chorusman (TIME, Aug. 11). All charges were dismissed. The three grinned, posed amiably for photographers.

Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh bought a 150-acre farm near Princeton, N. J., hard by the estate of his friend Gerard Barnes Lambert (yachts, planes, "Listerine").

Ethel and Charlotte Dorrance, debutante daughters and heiresses of the late Dr. John Thompson Dorrance, almost sole owner of Campbell Soup Co. (TIME, Oct. 13) were badly injured when their automobile skidded, overturned near Philadelphia.

Irving T. Bush, president of Bush Terminal Co., back in the U. S. from honeymooning in Europe with his third wife (former Marian Spore, Michigan heiress, Manhattan mystic and social worker) paid without protest $83,000 in duties and fines for undeclared jewelry worth $40,000. Officials stated there was no attempt at smuggling, simply a dispute over duties on jewelry purchased in the U. S., reset in Europe, brought back. Their fines paid, the Bushes sailed once more for Europe.

Newcomb Carlton, president of Western Union Telegraph Co. was interviewed by the Rochester, N. Y. Journal on the Depression. Declared he: "A good many dayworkers are putting in only part time to spread the work, but it's 'stuffed shirts' like me who are putting in full time."

Robert Minor, editor of the Communist Daily Worker, gaoled last spring for inciting riots in Manhattan (TIME, March 17), was paroled, rushed to Roosevelt Hospital where he underwent a successful appendectomy.

J. Francis ("Shanty") Hogan, huge, able catcher of the New York Giants baseball team, at an apartment party in Manhattan, objected to the presence of one Joseph Kink, Negro elevator operator who had been asked in for a drink. Hogan ejected Kink. Furious, Kink got a base ball bat and knife, waited until Hogan left the party, took him down in the elevator, beat and stabbed him painfully as he left the building.

An unknown quatrain by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) came to light when an 18th Century potter's wheel was presented to Manhattan's Museum of the Peaceful Arts. Attached to the wheel, which had inspired Longfellow at the age of 16, were these lines: No handicraftsman's art Can to our art compare; We potters make our pots Of what we potters are.

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