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

Mrs. Mary Christmas of Racine, Wis. announced she was tired of having store clerks, when they asked her name and she told them, say: "The same to you."

In the British Who's Who, issued annually at this time, Mrs. Helen Wills Moody was included for the first time, her tennis championships being listed under "recreations." Robert Tyre Jones Jr. of Atlanta, open and amateur golf champion of Britain was left out, as was William Tatem Tilden II. Ernest Hemingway joined the U. S. literary contingent of Sinclair Lewis, Henry Louis Mencken, Theodore Dreiser, Eugene Gladstone O'Neill. Paul Robeson, Negro tenor and actor, not listed in Who's Who in America, is listed in Britain's Who's Who. Charles Augustus Lindbergh's history is recounted as follows: "Enrolled in flying school, Lincoln, Neb., in 1922; flew alone from New York to Paris, 1927." Col. Lindbergh's father-in-law Dwight Whitney Morrow does not appear. Nicholas Murray Butler's paragraph occupies more space in the volume than that of any other man or woman, British or foreign.

Of her late spiritualist husband Lady Doyle declared: "I happen to know that [since his death] he could have gone very high, but deliberately remained behind in order to keep contact with the earth and influence the spiritualist movement." Thus did she refute recent testimony by a spiritualist medium that the soul of Sir Arthur was "earthbound."

Barton Pinnacle was indicated in the will of Dr. William Eleazer Barton, Lincoln authority, father of Adman Bruce Barton, as the name which he wished given to a Kentucky mountain bequeathed by him to his alma mater Berea College.

Onetime Judge Benjamin Barr

("Companionate Marriage") Lindsey received a court scolding in Manhattan last week for causing a rumpus in Bishop William Thomas Manning's cathedral (TIME, Dec. 15). Bishop Manning refused to prosecute. So subsided the affair, except for a limerick composed by Protestant Episcopal clergymen who dislike Bishop Manning. The limerick:

A bishop who's quite fond of banning Whatever he haps to be scanning Made some one so wroth That he shouted with froth: "You cannot serve both God and Manning."

For issuing fraudulent checks and failure to pay the wages of employes at a military academy which he conducts at El Monte, Calif., Major Richard M. Cannon, son of Bishop James Cannon Jr. of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, was haled into court, indicted on eight counts, freed under bonds of $1,950.

A 40-m.p.h. offshore wind snapped a high-tension wire feeding the summer homes of such cinema notables as Ronald Colman, Clara Bow, Gloria Swanson, Ruth Chatterton, Marie Prevost, at Malibu Beach, Calif. The wire fell on a tank of gasoline, exploded it. Fire ripped through the colony, destroyed 19 houses, including those of Louise Fazenda, Director Alan Dwan.

One Fred A. Meyer, immigrant from Berlin, proudly exhibited in Manhattan a sketch of Albert Einstein which he had made aboard the S. S. Belgenland last fortnight and to which Dr. Einstein had affixed, with his signature, the following rhyme: Dieses fette satte Schwein

Soil Professor Einstein sein.

(This fat, well-sated pig you see

Professor Einstein purports to be.)

As Henry Ford was being driven from Washington to Detroit, his chauffeur ignored a stop light at the public square of Youngstown, Ohio. Thereupon Mr. Ford's car crashed into that of Youngstownsman W. N. Bare, crumpling its own steering gear and fender. The local Ford agency supplied Mr. Ford with one of its stock cars, he went on his way.

The following received surgical attention: Cinemactress Janet Gaynor (appendectomy) . Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis ("minor operation"). Dr. Robert Russa Moton, principal of Tuskegee Institute ("major operation"), Count Felix von Luckner (collarbone and ribs fractured when his automobile skidded, overturned at Waukegan, Ill). The following were ill: Poet-statesman Gabriele d'Annunzio ("may soon undergo a grave operation"), Novelist Booth Tarkington (eyes), Actor John Barrymore (jungle fever contracted during a yacht cruise in Central American waters), Edward, Prince of Wales (chill).

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