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

In Yonkers, N. Y. a judge asked a man charged with speeding: "Aren't you Carlyle Blackwell of the old movie days?"

Speeder: Yes, your Honor, but I thought you were too young to remember me.

Judge: You were my favorite actor. . . . Sentence suspended.

Sold for $700 at auction in Denver were the trinkets of the late Elizabeth Bonduel McCourt ("Baby Doe") Tabor (TIME, March 18), remnants of a fortune estimated at $8,000,000.

At Fore River, Mass., J. Pierpont

Morgan and his son, Henry Sturgis Morgan, sat on the stand to watch Mrs. Henry Sturgis Morgan christen the new 10,000 ton cruiser Quincy. While the band brayed, airplanes zoomed, crowds cheered, flags waved, schoolchildren sang, a U. S. deputy marshal elbowed his way through the jam and up on the stand, to serve writs in a mysterious $500,000 action against Mr. Morgan & son.

At Mill Neck, on Long Island's swank North Shore estate of onetime Aircraft Manufacturer Grover Cleveland Loening, 500 socialites gathered for a beauty contest between "16 Gorgeous, Glorious, Glamorous Girls, a Breath-taking Panoply of Pulchritude" enlisted from the neighborhood's own select ranks. Among the contestants were Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney as Miss Wheatley Hills, Mrs. John R. Fell as Miss Woodbury, Helen Whitney Bourne as Miss Mitt Neck, Mrs. George Hepburn as Miss Locust Valley, Mrs. Jay Carlisle Jr. as Miss East Islip. The young women first paraded before the judges in evening dress, then in bathing suits. Selected as Miss Nassau County and presented with banner, cup, bouquet of ferns was demure, dark-haired Margaret Stevenson, 17, daughter of Philip Stevenson of Glen Cove, niece of Poloist Malcolm ("Mike") Stevenson. Said Father Stevenson: "I take great pride. . . . It's like showing a winning horse."

After a wildlife enthusiast had waited days in an outer office to see U. S. Biological Survey Chief Jay Norwood ("Ding") Darling, the caller brought out a wild turkey call, sounded it long & loud. Out from his inner sanctum sprang Chief Darling. "I was exceedingly busy," he explained. "But when that turkey call sounded it was too much for me."

When James J-Braddock paid off his $367.24 indebtedness for relief, the Hudson County, N. J., bureau reported the incident to superiors, adding: "Incidentally, Mr. Braddock recently became the champion heavyweight of the world."

After running down a woman in his car, Hiroshi Mitsui, 22, younger brother of the head of one of Japan's rich, famed Mitsui family's eleven branches, was lodged over night in the Bridgeport, Conn. jail, released next morning on $1,000 bail charged with reckless driving.

In Vienna reports circulated that Dowager Queen Elisabeth of the Belgians would follow the example of her dead husband's sister, Princess Josephine von Hohenzollern, enter a Catholic convent.

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