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

To Stillwater, Minn, from his home in Chamberlain, S. Dak., went Charles M. Lockwood, 91, last man of the Last Man's Club (Civil War reunionists), to meet with the Bully Beef Club. World War edition of the Last Man's Club. Last Man Lockwood opened a bottle of rare old Burgundy four years ago, but the Bully Beef club had a battle-scarred can of bully beef to be opened by the last two survivors of its 286 members. Said Last Man Lockwood: "We ate many cans of bully beef during the Civil War but we chose a rare old bottle of Burgundy wine for the final toast. Anyway, wine is more in keeping with the times." Forthwith beside the battle-scarred can of bully beef was placed a brand-new bottle of Burgundy.

From Weinsberg, Germany, whither he fled from the U. S. as a draft-dodger 14 years ago, Grover Cleveland Bergdoll wrote his first public letter to the Philadelphia Record. Rebutting charges that he had bribed his way to freedom from his Army captors, Dodger Bergdoll declared: "I never paid a cent of graft to anyone in the world, and I never intend to. If I were given to bribery I could easily have bribed myself into a rocking-chair job in the Army or Navy during the War and would have avoided all the trouble I had. But I was no diplomat."

On March 1 Allan Hoover, younger son of the 31st President of the U. S. was to leave the lands department of the Security-First National Bank of Los Angeles, go to farming on 500 acres he and friends had bought near Bakersfield.

The London County Council declined to name a street for pretty Anne Boleyn, beheaded wife of Henry VIII. Reason: "Her virtue was not of a character to deserve respect."

Scripps-Howard Columnist Westbrook Pegler last week chose, as subject of one of his most sardonic pieces, Philadelphia Turfman Joseph Early Widener. Excerpts:

"It has been a long time since anything has cheered one quite as much as the news that Joseph E. Widener--'Mister' Widener, as we intimates call him around the horse parks--has been entertaining the Earl and Countess of Athlone at Palm Beach. Mister Widener is as plain as an old diamond tiara and as Democratic as the Mikado himself. . . .

"The Earl and Countess of Athlone probably will not have time to take pot luck with the citizens at the New York municipal handout stations, but that is just as well, as it might tend to give them an incorrect impression of life in the United States. . . ."

At Vassar, young women were for the first time permitted to smoke in their rooms. Required to furnish ashtrays and metal wastebaskets, they were held liable for fire damage.

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