"Names make news."

Last week the following names made the following news:

Tom Watson, 13, brother of Mrs. Herbert Hoover Jr.,* was in a trolleycar crash in San Francisco. Caught in the wreckage, he urged rescuers first to extricate Motorman Arthur K. Anderson. Said he: "I am all right. I am a Boy Scout." His leg was crushed, amputated. To go to Stanford University, to become a football star had been his ambition.

The American Academy of Arts & Letters opened a new wing of its Manhattan building, met (50 academicians) with 18 delegates from foreign academies, announced the election of five new members: Novelist Edith Wharton (second female to be elected, the first having been Poetess Julia Ward Howe, who died in 1910), Poet Robert Frost, Professor Irving Babbitt, Sculptor George Grey Barnard, Biographer James Truslow Adams; taking places left vacant by the deaths of Thomas Hastings, Frank V. van der Stucken, Arthur Twining Hadley, Brander Matthews, George Edward Woodberry. Corresponding members elected were Poet Sir William Watson, Poet Laureate John Masefield.

Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, addressing the Chicago Geographic Society, revealed that his Antarctic expedition was still financially embarrassed. Said he: "We must get out of debt before I can discuss my plans for the future. The hard times dealt us a serious blow. At present the Antarctic expedition is $110,000 in debt. Our movie is not making anything to speak of." Variety last week reported that the Admiral's lectures are grossing $4,000 to $5,000 nightly; that he will clear some $55,000.

The personal possessions of Mrs. Charles Victor Bob, wife of the missing Manhattan stockbroker whose financial activities may bring a loss of $12,000,000 to his investors (TIME, Oct. 27, et seq.), were sold at auction, brought $92,000. Mrs. Bob's share of the proceeds, according to lawyers, cannot be attached by Mr. Bob's creditors. Most interesting item in the sale: a volume containing steel engravings and autographs of every U. S. President. Price: $400.

Chicagoans learned that Actor John Bryan who has been playing Lorenzo in The Merchant of Venice at the Chicago Civic Theatre is a grandson of the late great William Jennings Bryan. Mode of discovery: he was visited by Representative Ruth Bryan Owen of Florida, whose son he is by her first marriage with William Homer Leavitt. John Bryan Leavitt was adopted by his grandfather, shortened his name.

Madge Kennedy, playing in Michael & Mary at Boston, was bruised about the face in an automobile accident while returning from the Gloucester home of Inventor John Hays Hammond Jr. in the company of William Gaston, husband of Rosamond Pinchot (niece of Governor- elect Gifford Pinchot of Pennsylvania). Miss Kennedy was treated at a hospital under the name of "Mary Campbell of Los Angeles."

In Pittsburgh it became known that the late Alexander Pollock Moore, onetime (1923-25) U. S. ambassador to Spain, had torn up a will in which he had made ample provision for Dorothy Russell O'Reilly Calvit, only daughter of the late famed Actress Lillian Russell, who was Mr. Moore's wife. Her explanation: he was annoyed at articles by Mrs. Calvit published last year in Liberty, where she wrote that Mr. Moore's mother had once run a Pittsburgh boardinghouse. As a result he cut her off with $1,000. Counsel for Mrs. Calvit announced: "If necessary, I will be prepared to show that 'Diamond Jim' Brady offered to settle $1,000,000 on Mrs. Calvit in the form of a trust fund if Lillian Russell had accepted his suit, but that instead she accepted Moore's word [that he would provide for her daughter] and became his wife."

An item in the will of the late Sir Guy Francis William Laking, 26, filed in Lon don, read: "To my Friend Tallulah Bankhead [actress, daughter of Congressman William Brockman Bankhead of Alabama], all my motor-cars."

Last week the following underwent or were recovering from appendectomies : Cecil B. De Mille (in Hollywood), Groucho Marx (in Chicago), Walter Percy Chrysler Jr. (in Hanover, N. H.).

One Robert Robinson, Manhattan chauffeur, was fined $5 for having run down and slightly injured Zaro Agha, decrepit Turk who is in the U. S. purporting to be 156 years old.

* And related to the husband of Helen Wills Moody.

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