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

At Cape Town George Bernard Shaw

took his first airplane flight, declared it "the most thrilling experience of my 75 years."

Swimming off Mar del Plata General Agustin P. Justo, President-elect of Argentina, was saved from drowning by coast guardsmen.

Having resigned his office as France's Foreign Minister Aristide Briand went for a few days' rest to his summer home at Cocherel, near St. Germain. "But it is too damp and cold there for me to stay, now that I am at liberty to go elsewhere," he said. "I shall buy a little boat . . . and go sailing in the sunshine on the blue Mediterranean Sea." Friends of Brer Briand noted a marked improvement in his health and spirits.

Premier Pierre Laval of France showed friends a copy of TIME with its story about him as "man of the year" (TIME, Jan. 4). When he proudly pointed out the observation that his surname spells itself backward, Leon Noel, new head of the Surete Generale, cried: "I'll double you. Chief."

Leon Trotsky, who was reported about to move to Germany from the Island of Prinkipo, near Istanbul, where he has resided since November 1929, took a new two-year lease on a villa on the island. His only known source of income: royalties from his books, said to be "tremendous" in Europe.

Like many another British nobleman hard pressed by taxes and unable to rent his estate, the Earl of Lytton closed his turreted Tudor castle at Knebworth, Hertfordshire. Said he: "For years I have been trying to let it in vain. I cannot afford to live in it longer. It is, of course, a grief to leave our ancestral home in this way, but there is no alternative. They are all going."

Carmel Myers, onetime cinemactress, was robbed in her house of $20,000 worth of jewelry, escaped being bound and gagged by informing the burglars she was pregnant.

Lieut.-Governor Albert B. Chandler of Kentucky addressed the annual convention of the American Bureau of Chiropractic Inc. in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, told an audience of 12,000 that chiropractors were welcome in Kentucky. At the end of his speech Lieut.-Governor Chandler's wife seated herself at a piano, played for him while he sang "Sonny Boy" and, as an encore, "Mother Machree."

With a French traveling companion, a Hindu munshi (secretary), two Hindu servants and a collie dog Sharmishthabai

Holkar, Maharani of Indore, onetime Nancy Ann Miller of Seattle, arrived in the U. S. for the first time since she married the rich ex-Maharajah in Bombay four years ago. Traveling through Canada to escape interviews because "it was terrible in New York," she hastened west to visit her mother and her grandfather who is seriously ill. Manhattan ship reporters speedily pierced the Maharani's incognito (her name was not on the passenger list) and, to the indescribable horror of the munshi, proceeded to ask if it were not true that her husband was dissatisfied with her because she had borne him no son. Said she: "We are very happy with what we have [two daughters. Shadara, 5, and Sita, 1, with their father in Cairo]. My husband has a son by a former marriage who is now on the throne of Indore." The circle of red powder on her forehead was not a caste mark, the Maharani explained, "but an auspicious sign which one may or may not wear without violating ethics." Because she and her husband had visited India only twice since their marriage, spending practically all of their time at their St. Germain home or on the Riviera, the Maharani declined to discuss Indian affairs.

In order that Mrs. Reginald Gervis Hargreaves, the original Alice of Alice in Wonderland, might come from her home in Lyndhurst. England to attend the ceremonies, Columbia University postponed its celebration of the 100th anniversary of Lewis Carroll's birth from Jan. 27 to May 4, which will be Mrs. Hargreaves' 80th birthday. The postponement was arranged to spare Mrs. Hargreaves the rigors of a winter voyage. "Alice" alone survives of the three daughters of Dean Henry George Liddell for whom Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll), the sombre, pedantic young Oxford lecturer, composed the fantastic "Wonderland" stories. Her husband died six years ago. Two of her sons were killed in the War; a third son lives in London.

Samuel Insull Jr., 31, smart son of a smart father, vice-chairman of the most potent Insull utilities, was awarded the first gold medal of the Chicago Junior Association of Commerce for "the young man under 35 ... who has performed the most meritorious civic service in Chicago" during the year. Son Insull's performance: chairmanship of the Joint Emergency Relief Fund for Cook County which raised more than $10,000,000.

Joseph Jacobs, housepainter of The Bronx, N. Y. and his wife Sallie named their baby Norma Depression Jacobs.

Ely Culbertson returned to Manhattan from a holiday in Havana, following his bridge victory over Sidney S. Lenz, to announce that he had just invested "every cent" of his money in U. S. stocks. Said he: "I am making the biggest bet of my life. . . . My bid actually is that we turn the second corner in about two months."

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