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

King Prajadhipok of Siam, restored to almost normal eyesight by his U. S. operation (TIME, May 18,. now looks at Bangkok with one eye through clear glass, with the other eye through faintly brown glass, according to passengers on the world-cruiser Empress of Britain which returned to Manhattan last week carrying 95 widows and 336 other passengers. Notables: June, famed London actress, divorced wife of Lord Inverclyde, who boarded ship at San Francisco as did her onetime friend Woolf Barnato (son of the late South African Diamond Tycoon Barney Barnato) with his bride.

To a charity bazaar in Milan, Gabriele d'Annunzio gave one of his molar teeth, encased in a silver chest upon which he had engraved the Latin word Durabo (I will last). It was raffled off for 3,000 lire (about $150). Poet d'Annunzio. now practically toothless, bald as an egg, also contributed his War cigarets (bought by a nephew of Il Duce for 1,500 lire -- about $75), a piece of cloth on which he had painted a design "with a violent hand." and a bewitched bird. Interviewed upon landing at Rotterdam, bushy-haired Albert Einstein remarked: "Nice people, those Americans. . . . When some one is dead in America, he does not exist any more. No one talks . . . about him. Sometimes the Americans are just children . . . flocking to see me, as if I were a miraculous animal."

Because Editor Reed Harris of the Columbia Spectator (undergraduate daily) was expelled last fortnight there was a mass meeting at the base of Columbia University's gilt alma mater statue. Rated by some a publicity-seeker, by others an able crusader, Editor Harris was conspicuous last winter with charges of professionalism in Columbia football (TIME, Nov. 23) and lately with attacks on the management of John Jay Dining Hall, whose food and sanitary conditions he claimed were poor. Columbia's Dean Herbert Edwin Hawkes announced that Student Harris was expelled for ''personal misconduct." But to many a Columbia student he became a Cause. STRIKE TODAY! went the word. Daily Columbia struck. Opposition from "the athletic crowd'' which had repeatedly menaced Student Harris only lent zest to the goings-on. Eggs flew, eyes were blacked. stink bombs made embarrassed strikers ill. Harris supporters howled lustily for Free Speech et al. but the strike ended gently. Columbia went back to work. Dean Hawkes departed for Europe leaving Student Harris still expelled.

When S. S. President Coolidge docked in Honolulu, Collector of the Port Mrs. Jeannette Hyde seized a case of beer, a case of wine belonging to Passenger Sir Ellice Victor Sassoon, potent British banker. Fined $150. Sir Victor said: "It was really funny, being hauled in by a woman. I was frightfully embarrassed ... I had no idea that I was busting any of your jolly old United States laws.''

Bronzed from a winter of hunting on a 10,000-acre preserve near Bad Saarow. his German home. Heavyweight Champion Max Siegfried Adolf Otto Schmeling arrived last week in the U. S. With him were a shepherd dog brought for a Iriend and Trainer Max Machon, wearing a new suit. On June 16, Champion Schmeling will defend his title, in a new 81,250,000 stadium (begun last week) in Long Island City, against Jack Sharkey of Boston, whom he beat to win it.

When a group of bright young men in Chicago sought to incorporate "for the promotion of civic welfare and political improvement." Illinois' Secretary of State William J. Stratton refused them a charter. He ruled that the name they had picked would reflect upon the dignity of the State. Out of admiration for Charles Gates Dawes, they had picked his notorious oldtime expletive, "Hell 'n Maria."

Blurbed The Carillon ("A National Quarterly of Verse") in its spring issue: "Theodore Roosevelt, Governor General of the Philippine Islands, claims that he cannot write poetry. The Carillon has been honored with ... his first contribution. We believe our readers will differ with 'T. R.' " Onetime explorer. Poet Roosevelt contemplates explorers, known & unknown, in On a Pass in Szchewan. Excerpts: Around its lie the snowfields, smooth and white

Save where the cliffs thrust through Their rough gray shoulders, scorning any

cover, Daring alone to face the winter storms.

Hanno, the Carthagenian, swart of brow, Steering his blistered wooden ships by

guess, . . . Pytheas, the Greek, not a sea-captain but

a man of science . . . The man who found the Karakoram pass.

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