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

Home from the hospital, Bryan Untiedt, 13, hero of the Towner, Colo., school-bus catastrophe (TIME, April 6 & 13), sat on the livingroom couch with his frost-bitten feet in a pan of hot water and watched his younger brothers and sisters play. All had been frost-nipped except Virgil, 11, who had not attended school that blizzardy day. "He wouldn't be so fresh if he'd been on the bus," Bryan remarked to a visiting newsgatherer.

"Yes," piped Virgil. "But I was unconscious nearly two weeks when I was burned with gasoline three years ago!"

"There is nothing fundamental in American life of today for young Americans to admire," said Director Alexander Meiklejohn of the soon-to-be-suspended experimental college at the University of Wisconsin.

Having just discovered that there is a racehorse named Coolidge,* the Christian Science Monitor commented editorially: "This may be all very well, but suppose he does not 'choose to run?' "

In Philadelphia Ethel Borden, socialite daughter of Mrs. J. Borden Harriman of Washington, D. C., became so ill she could not, for a time, continue her first role as a Broadway actress--that of a maid in The Truth Game, with Billie Burke. Substituted for her was Patricia Ziegfeld, 14, daughter of Actress Burke & Producer Florenz Ziegfeld, who happened to be visiting her mother during a school holiday.

A New Orleans physician announced that a rash which had appeared on Ethel Barrymore Colt, stage-touring with her mother Actress Ethel Barrymore, was digestive in origin, not measles.

Justice John A. Ford of the New York Supreme Court leaped to escape a speedy motor truck in lower Manhattan. A fellow pedestrian had an even closer call. Breathing hard, steadying himself on the Justice's arm, the stranger gasped: "If that guy had knocked me down and sent me to the hospital, what could I do about it?"

The Justice told him he could bring suit for damages.

Cried the stranger: "What good would that do me? With nothing but crooked lawyers and crooked judges on the bench, I'd have a fat chance to collect anything, I would!"

Among the councilmen elected by Dallas citizens under that city's new council-manager system (TIME, Oct. 27) were Edwy Rolfe Brown, vice board chairman of Standard Oil Co. of New York, and T. L. Bradford, board chairman of Southwestern Life Insurance Co.

Queen Marie of Jugoslavia bundled her three young sons into an automobile, took the wheel and went spinning down Prince Michael Street in Belgrade. Out from a sidestreet raced another car, whacked resoundingly into the royal one. BANG! went all the royal tires.

Handy Park was the name bestowed by the city of Memphis, Tenn. on its onetime Beale Street Square, in honor of Negro Composer William Christopher Handy of the jazz-classic "Beale Street Blues."

In Kansas City, where Novelist Harry Sinclair Lewis observed the clergy and evolved Elmer Gantry (TIME, March 14, 1927), Rev. Jesse E. Baker recently surprised his respectable Avondale Methodist Church congregation with a sermon defending a local widow who had been the subject of much moral gossip. Last week he surprised them further by marrying the widow, a Mrs. Stella Gibson.

R. C. Geddes, son of Rt. Hon. Sir Auckland Geddes, onetime British Ambassador to the U. S. (1920-24), was discovered incognito working in an oil refinery at Martinez, Calif.

Arriving in Manhattan en route to Canada to investigate the advisability of speculating in grain futures there, Sir Josiah Stamp, famed British financial authority, said: "I think that everyone is looking to this side of the Atlantic to lead the way back to better times."

Tennessee's Governor Henry Hollis Horton ordered a raid on his wife's farm when autopsies on three fine cows revealed they had died from eating alcoholic corn mash. Arrested for distilling: William Bryant, Mrs. Horton's resident farmer.

Alert Dr. Frank Horace Vizetelly, famed lexicographer, had remarks to make about a word used in a radioration recently by Mrs. Gifford Pinchot, wife of the Governor of Pennsylvania. The word was "radiorator." Said Dr. Vizetelly: "The lady probably pronounced it radiorator but . . . my feeling is that the general public would pronounce it radiorator-- which would be a horrible thing."

Among those ill were: King George of England (subacute bronchitis); ex-Prime Minister Yuko Hamaguchi of Japan (second operation to relieve condition caused by shooting--TIME, Nov. 24); Mrs. Ida Young, mother of Owen D. Young, who hastened from Phoenix, Ariz, to her side (skull-fracture sustained in a fall downstairs) ; Cinemactor Harold Lloyd (appendectomy) ; Publisher William Howard Gannett of Augusta, Me. (hip-fracture from slipping on a gravel road); one-time Brewer Jacob ("Jake") Ruppert, owner of the New York American League baseball team (bronchitis, acute); Novelist James Joyce (waning eyesight, necessitating a third operation); Singer Mary Garden (bronchitis).

*The seven-year-old bay gelding trotter Coolidge 2.07 1/2 (1930), out of Zarrine by Guy Axworthy, bred by Alfred Houston Cosden of Southold. L. I., now anonymously owned.

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