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

Spartanly disregarding his physician's advice and a poorly placed boil, New Jersey's Governor Harold Giles Hoffman mounted his horse, without wincing reviewed cavalry at his first Governor's Day pageant.

Pennsylvania's Governor George Howard Earle, who last winter had to hail a ride in a truck to reach the State House in time to make a speech, bought an autogyro for commuting between his home in Haverford, Philadelphia suburb, and Harrisburg, learned to fly it.

Down the chimney into the study of Rhode Island's Governor Theodore Francis ("All-Round") Green streaked a bolt of lightning, smashing bric-a-brac to smithereens, showering everything, including the Governor, with soot. Said he: "I'll need a bath."

At the Afton & other mines in the Temagami District of Northern Ontario, financier Stuyvesant Fish & party put on old clothes, examined gold-bearing ore. Back in Manhattan Prospector Fish was secretive.

At East Hampton, L. I. Stuyvesant Fish, 14, nephew of Stuyvesant Fish (see above), paddled an inflated rubber mattress out to sea, brought ashore a drowning plumber. Learning from the plumber that his companion was also drowning, young Fish, with a 15-year-old friend and his father, Sydney Webster Fish, rowed out and rescued the clerk of the East Hampton Board of Education.

Freed by order of a New York Supreme Court from his marriage with Austrian Countess Marie Anne Paule Ferdinandine von Wurmbrand-Stuppach, 20, was Clendenin Ryan Jr., 28, grandson of the late great Thomas Fortune Ryan (TIME, May 14, 1934 et ante). The annulment confirmed the referee's recommendation made after secret hearings on the grounds that the Countess had 1) misrepresented her social position, wealth, upbringing; 2) been bought off in two previous engagements; 3) married Socialite Ryan intending shortly to dissolve the marriage, obtain a settlement enabling her to return to a previous love. With obvious reference to the onetime Barbara Hutton, Justice Salvatore A. Cotillo declared:

"The records of our courts and the public press affords ample proof that alliances between Americans of either sex with titled foreigners are fraught with peril and almost invariably end in disaster. ... It is not a source of satisfaction to see our marriage institution and our courts made mere incidents to the purchase and sale of foreign titles. . . .

"[Ryan] obviously was unaccustomed to dealing with the workings of a shrewd and cunning European mind and doubtless was attracted by the glamor of foreign titles and his contact with Continental nobility. In permitting himself to be deceived by the sham of class or caste based upon the accident of birth, [he] lost sight of the fact that his own country is firmly grounded in principles opposed to divine rights of titled personages."

Ambushed at the door of his home, beaten and hospitalized with painful injuries was Mayor James M, O'Brien of Revere, Mass. Held in $5,000 bail, charged with assault with intent to murder was Robert Jasse, New England's onetime middleweight boxing champion, laid off by Mayor O'Brien as chief of the Suffolk Downs race track special police, who had been heard to say at Revere's City Hall that he had been "tossed around enough," that when he saw the Mayor he would "tear him apart." Next day the convalescent Mayor lay abed in the hospital with a special bodyguard of Revere police on duty day & night in the next room. To call went the Secretary of the Mayors' Club of Massachusetts, who learned that Mayor O'Brien had been assaulted several times before. Horrified at the peril to which Mayors are exposed, the Secretary wrote each & every mayor in Massachusetts urging constant bodyguards for protection from annoyed citizens. James Henry Roberts Cromwell, who once warned, "I can see a lot more peril from the right wingers than from the left'' (TIME, Feb. 27, 1933), in Hongkong honeymooning with his bride, the onetime Doris Duke, declared: "We must be back in the U. S. by October. There are a lot of things needing our attention, particularly the Roosevelt regime. Something has to be done about it and people with money are the only ones who can check the present collapse into chaos."

Grateful to U. S. oil companies with Mexican interests which customarily pay the bills of its football teams, the University of Mexico made Harry Ford Sinclair an Honorary Alumnus.

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