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

Into the U. S. Senate Chamber on the same day walked Mississippi's Theodore Gilmore Bilbo with a black eye and Louisiana's Huey Pierce Long with a bandaged hand. Senator Bilbo said he got the black eye in an automobile accident. Senator Long said his hand was afflicted with "athlete's foot."

Mrs, Alfred Emanuel Smith was sufficiently recovered from her broken arm (TIME, Feb. 11) to go with her husband to the Colony Club at Palm Beach. As do all musicians when the Smiths appear, the Colony Club orchestra broke into "The Sidewalks of New York." Mr. & Mrs. Smith rose, smiled, bowed, waltzed around the floor, which other dancers promptly deserted to watch them.

At the Golden Anniversary Banquet of the Inland Daily Press Association in Chicago, Publisher William Allen White of the Emporia (Kans.) Gazette observed his own golden anniversary as a newsman by saying: "In these 50 years we have seen what seemed a successful system grow slowly and mount steadily to a fair approximation of justice. Then out of God knows where came the change. . . . Where did the money come from? And where the devil has it gone? I am without rudder, anchor or compass. I don't know what is the matter."

In the midst of his act in a Pittsburgh theatre, Comedian Jimmy ("Schnozzle") Durante pranced off the stage, ran up an aisle, stopped at the seat of Mrs. Evelyn Loether, contractor's wife. Then, according to Mrs. Loether, he "seized her in an indiscreet manner. He made an unlawful, illegal assault upon her. . . . He put his arms around her neck and forced her head against his. He kissed her left cheek, slobbered on her face." Mrs. Loether "cowered in embarrassment" and, two days later, sued for $5,000 damages. Said Comedian Durante: "Aw, it's just one of those things."

Twin loves of California's old (71), fun-having Senator William Gibbs McAdoo are dancing, flying. In Washington the National Aeronautic Association, of which he is president, held a dance to award its annual "certificates of reward & performance." Senator McAdoo handed scrolls to twelve doughty aviators and Mrs. Jeannette Piccard, first licensed woman balloon pilot, who ascended 57,559 ft. into the stratosphere with her husband, Dr. Jean Piccard.

Director Donald Randall Richberg of the National Emergency Council, who has found Hugh Samuel Johnson's Saturday Evening Post serial The Blue Eagle from Egg to Earth much less offensive than he expected (TIME, Dec. 31, et seq.), told a Miami audience: "I question your interest even in the harrowing tale of the transition of the Blue Eagle from egg to egomania."

"Why, hell, I am broke and have been for two years," said New York's onetime Mayor James John ("Jimmy") Walker, haled into London court by Manhattan creditors.

All day on his 73rd birthday Steelman Charles Michael Schwab, working at his office on lower Broadway, refused either to see newshawks or to issue his annual bracer. That night at dinner he gave in, told a reporter: "Conditions are improving "

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