"Names make news." Last week these names made this news:

His Exalted Highness, the Nizam of Hyderabad ("Richest Indian") welcomed to Hyderabad last week his newly married sons Crown Prince Azam Jah (afflicted with boils which made it impossible for him to walk) and Prince Moazzam Jah, both much smaller and swarthier than their brides, Princess Durri Chehvar and Princess Hadica Nielufear, respectively the daughter and niece of the onetime Caliph of Islam, Prince Abdoul Medjid Effendi who mar ried them in his villa at Nice, France (TIME. Nov. 23, 1931).

Bidding for the brides and attached spiritual kudos was brisk. Unsuccessful bidders: the Shah of Persia, King Feisal of Iraq, King Fuad of Egypt. Price paid: dowries of $200,000 & $75,000; increase of $500 per month on $1,500 subsidy paid by the Nizam to the ex-Caliph.

Colyumist John Chapman of the New York Daily News revealed that shortly after the Duke of Manchester and Miss Kathleen Ethel Dawes were married the Duke ordered from a smart Manhattan stationer visiting cards for his wife. Upon delivery the cards read Dutchess of Man chester.

Film Actor Richard Dix pleaded guilty to Federal income tax evasion, paid a $500 fine. He explained: "I left my taxes up to one of these experts and here I am."

"I been in China too long. . . . If I had only stayed a couple of days I would have had a better idea of China," observed Will Rogers as he sailed from Shanghai for Hongkong, Manila, Siam and Singapore, whence he will fly on to Europe. Of the evacuation of Chinchow by the Chinese, Funnyman Rogers wire-lessed from his ship to McNaught Syndicate: "Well, this winds up the war. Japan has got all they want of China and China has certainly got all they want of Japan and the League has got all they want of the whole mess." Arriving in the Orient early last month with one-eyed Floyd Gibbons, "war reporting'' for Hearst news services, Will Rogers was run over by a jinrikisha in Tokyo. Flying on to Manchuria, he quipped: "No war today, cold weather." In Mukden he found the army of U. S. newsmen had "been here so long and times are so tough that about half the banditry committed is by them." At Harbin he reported that "the American Consul General [George C. Hanson] is the Emperor of Man-churia." After a talk with Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang in Peiping, he remarked: "These Chinese . . . are good losers." Other Rogerisms of the journey: "Siberia looks just like Oklahoma and the farmers are just as bad off. . . . China owns the lot. Japan owns the house that's on it. Now who should have the policemen? . . . A Chinaman's word [used to be] as good as his bond . . . but not since the missionaries and business men come in. Chinese are just as human as anybody now."

Jesse H. Pomeroy, famed Massachusetts prisoner who has served 55 years of a life sentence for brutally killing a small boy, again asked for a pardon, said a home had been promised him by Evangeline Cory Booth of the Salvation Army and by Sir Walter Scott.*

Twenty-nine Harvard professors, including Dean Roscoe Pound of the Law School, Zechariah Chafee Jr. and Felix Frankfurter, signed a formal protest to the League of Nations' Institute of Intellectual Co-operation against Benito Mussolini's requirement of a Fascist oath of allegiance by all Italian university professors (TIME, Dec. 28).

Flying from New York to her home in Wilmington, Del. for dinner, beauteous Eleanor Hoyt du Pont, 19, wife of A. Felix du Pont Jr., ran into a fog over New York Harbor, tried to land on Staten Island, crashed into a tree, suffered cuts and bruises.

Youngish Victor Emanuel, president of U. S. Electric Power Corp., owner of Rockingham Castle near Kettering. England, was invited to become Master of the Woodland and Pytchley Hunt in Northamptonshire.

The Dutch Government refused Wilhelm Hohenzollern, ill of a severe cold, permission to leave Doorn to visit his sister, onetime Queen Dowager Sophie of Greece, who is critically ill of a chronic eye ailment at Frankfurt-On-Main.

In a radio speech William Randolph Hearst nominated Speaker John Nance Garner as Democratic candidate for President, called him "another Champ Clark."

*No descendant of the late great novelist, whose baronetcy terminated with his son's death ( 1847).

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