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

In the just-published sixth report of the U. S. Geographic Board, Idaho's highest mountain, Hyndman Peak (12,655 ft.), was officially christened Borah Peak in honor of the State's longtime (since 1907) Senator.

Summoned to the telephone, Maude Phelps Hutchins, artist-wife of Chicago University's youthful President Robert Maynard Hutchins, was told: "This is Postal Telegraph. We have a message for you." Then three girls in the telegraph office sang the message over the wire: "Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, "Happy birthday, dear Maude, happy birthday to you! -- from Robert." Delighted, Mrs. Hutchins remembered that it was also the birthday of her good friend Mrs. Howard Linn, ordered the telegraph company to ring her up, and have sung: "Happy Birthday, dear Lucy. . . . from Maude and Bob." Next day, faced with similar requests from Chicago socialites, Postal Telegraph called the service "irregular," forbade it. Conductor Arturo Toscanini announced that he would personally acknowledge all contributions for the Save-the-Philharmonic drive sent to him at Manhattan's Astor Hotel. Campaign leaders wanted to handle the replies at their professional headquarters but the maestro's mail has become his consuming interest. He cuts engagements short, rushes home between rehearsals to see if more letters have come. Those he receives he spreads out on his cherished piano, hitherto sacred to his mementoes of Wagner and Verdi. In a Manhattan court appeared thread bare Emma Swift Hammerstein, 51, third wife of the late Oscar Hammerstein, to sue Arthur Hammerstein, her unfriendly stepson, for nonsupport. Four years ago when she was found guilty of vagabondage, Mr. Hammerstein offered to support her for life if she would leave the city (TIME, June 16, 1930). Mrs. Hammerstein said that after she went to France he sent only $300, informed her she would get no more, thereby forced her to return to the U. S., where she sold apples at a corner stand. Since 1932 she has lived on $10 per week from a charity organization. She asked the court to appoint a lawyer to press her suit.

Back from the jungles of Guatemala Joan Lowell (The Cradle of the Deep) brought a 6-year-old half-Indian boy named Marino Valdez. She averred that hostile Indians had captured Marino Valdez, cut off his right hand because he was an "infidel'' (or because they wanted to prevent his ever bearing arms), abandoned him to the jungle, where she found him while shooting films. She said she planned to adopt the waif legally in Manhattan, train him for the diplomatic service.

"I believe that sterilization is the only means of protecting our people from idiocy," said Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson. "I have seen three generations of idiots in my own Temple and there is nothing to protect us from a fourth."

Because his marks were so poor that he would have to begin his third year as a sophomore next September, Winthrop Aldrich Rockefeller, 21. fourth son of John D. Rockefeller Jr., left Yale. He now works in the family oil business.

The rot-gapped hull of a ship found by two fishermen beneath 10 ft. of water near Birch Island in Lake Huron was believed to be that of the Griffon, in which famed Voyageur Rene Robert Cavelier, Sieur de la Salle set out in 1679 to explore the Great Lakes and the Mississippi, and "discover the Western Sea."

An ear of Minnesota corn sent as a birthday present to Wilhelm von Hohenzollern in Doorn was returned, postmarked "REFUSED." Its donor, Register of Deeds Lenn Burton of Fairmont, Minn., went to school with the onetime Kaiser in Germany.

In the Imperial Palace at Tokyo, Finance Minister Koreklyo Takahashi delivered a one-hour lecture on "Devaluation of the American Dollar and its Effect on Japan" to Hirohito.

Lecturing on "Things Not Taught in the Law School," the American Bar Association's President Earle Wood Evans thus advised Harvard law students: "Go to church, even if it is hard for you to take. You'll meet the best citizens. It isn't so important for you to see them as it is for them to see you. . . . Get to calling fellows by their first names and have them call you by your first name. . . . Bill collecting is a good thing to do. It makes a lot of contacts and gets you in touch with many business concerns."

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