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

Hurrying to the foundering British freighter Exeter City through a swirling mid-Atlantic storm steamed the American Merchant Line's S. S. American Merchant, captained by Giles C. Stedman, 35, hero of the Ignazio Florio rescue in 1925. A giant wave had swept overboard the Exeter City's skipper and three men, her bridge and most of her superstructure. Unable to launch a free lifeboat. Captain Stedman shot a lifeline aboard the fast-sinking freighter, by means of which the ship's 22 survivors towed over an empty lifeboat, had themselves towed to safety.

Sold for $2,200 in Manhattan was a Rembrandt Peale "porthole" (surrounded by painted oval frame of masonry) portrait of George Washington.

Injured in a Boston automobile collision was Fanny C. Romans, 21, great-great-great granddaughter of John Adams, 2nd President of the U. S.

In Chicago, Mrs. Albert S. Gardner, also a great-great-great granddaughter of the 2nd President, sued a next-door neighbor for $500, charging he had killed her wire-haired terrier.

Discovered in the files of the Illinois State Historical Library at Springfield was a ticket received by Ulysses Simpson Grant, 18th President of the U. S., when he pawned his watch for $22 in St. Louis two days before Christmas 1857,

Reversed in the Mineola, L. I. county court was last year's conviction of James Abram Garfield, grandson of James Abram Garfield, 20th President of the U. S., for reckless driving.

Out before a socialite audience in Boston's little Peabody Playhouse strode tall, slender Francis Grover Cleveland, 29, son of Grover Cleveland, 24th President of the U. S. Cried he in a full tenor: "Heh, heh, me proud beauty! Now I have you in muh powah!" Complete with cutaway, half-inch diamond and curling black mustache, he was impersonating Villain Richard Murgatroyd in a modern burlesque of oldtime melodrama called Gold in the Hills, or the Dead Sister's Secret. The audience approved his performance with hearty hisses. The production was the first by a semiprofessional stock company, The Stagers, which he organized and manages. A onetime instructor in English and Latin at Cambridge's Browne & Nichols School. Son Cleveland has had two years professional experience as actor-manager in summer stock, now calls acting his profession. Diffident and unassuming, he says he will never enter politics.

To her three children the late Mrs. Francis Bowes Sayre, daughter of Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of U. S., left $12,000, jewelry and silver, including the silver service and diamond necklace which were her White House wedding presents from the U. S. Senate & House.

Flying home to California from a conference with President-elect Roosevelt, William Gibbs McAdoo was forced down at New Orleans by fog. Said he: "Republicans have had the milking teat of the cow too long. We're going to change that."

Declared Roosevelt Secretary Louis McHenry Howe, lecturing Columbia University journalism students in Manhattan: "You can't adopt politics as a profession and remain honest."

In Chicago, Harold Fowler McCormick, able amateur whistler, radio- whistled Mozart's Wiegenlied in a campaign for a temple of music at the Century of Progress.

Walking uninvited into a dance at the Ford Laboratory in Dearborn, Wilfred Chester Leland Jr., grandson of the founder of Lincoln Motor Co., slapped into the hands of Henry Ford a long-delayed subpoena ordering him to appear and testify in a suit brought against him by a onetime Lincoln agency.

In a letter to the Central Committee of the Communist Party, Exile Leon Trotsky declared that his tuberculous daughter Zinaide Volkov was driven to suicide in Berlin (TIME, Jan. 23) because Dictator Josef Stalin, "as a senseless act of vengeance against me," had deprived her of Russian citizenship, thus separating her permanently from her Siberia-banished husband and daughter.

Clarioned oldtime Suffraget Carrie Chapman Catt, 74, at the Cause and Cure of War Conference in Washington: "Lost! One international disarmament conference! What has become of it? Nobody appears to know."

Created a Knight of the Legion of Honor in Paris was Camille Robert, obscure theatre orchestra conductor, author of the famed French War song La Madelon,

Padlocked for violation of an ordinance prohibiting "lewdness, obscenity, indecency, immorality or impurity'' was Boston's Old Howard ("Always Something Doing''), famed oldtime burlesque house. At the hearing a Watch & Ward Society investigator described "vile body contortions" of a dancer. Said Mayor James Michael Curley, explaining that he had attended the show last October: "I never saw any muscle dancing there. The girls wore six-foot Turkish towels, much to the disappointment of the friends who accompanied me."

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