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

Columnist Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt (My Day) from Hyde Park, N. Y.: "At noon Anna and I went coasting. First we both used the same sled, which broke through the crust and landed us both head first in the snow. After this experience we coasted on separate sleds."

Chosen from among New Orleans debutantes to be Queen of the Mardi Gras Carnival was slim, brown-eyed Cora Stanton ("Coco") Jahncke, daughter of Hoover's Assistant Secretary of the Navy Ernest Lee Jahncke, great-granddaughter of Lincoln's Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton. A daughter and sister of Carnival Royalty, "Coco" Jahncke was born in 1915 on Twelfth Night (Jan. 6), official opening of the New Orleans Carnival season. That year her father was Rex, Lord of Misrule, King of Carnival. Small "Coco" received a scroll designating her Princess Royal. In 1929 her mother, Cora Van Voorhis Stanton Jahncke, was one of the six lesser Carnival Queens at the Mystic Club ball. In 1931 her elder sister, Adele Townsend Jahncke Dotson, reigned over the Mistick Krewe of Comus at the most exclusive of the Mardi Gras balls. "Coco," 21, swims, golfs, rides, likes best to race sailboats. She was a favorite of the Hoovers, who sent flowers from the White House when she graduated from Miss McGehee's School of New Orleans. In 1933 she was sent up to Brooklyn Navy Yard with a bottle of Mississippi water which she smashed over the bow of the New Cruiser New Orleans (TIME, April 24, 1933). This week, from the balcony of the Boston Club, Queen "Coco" will watch R. E. ("Rube") Tipton, steamship agent, proceed down Canal Street on a papier-mache throne at the head of the Rex Parade. In ermine cloak and rhinestones, she will rise and stand with outstretched arms as Rex rides past, drinking her health in champagne.

Scolding Yale alumni for the goal post riot which followed the last Yale-Princeton football game, Yale's President James Rowland Angell declaimed: "There will be no general, much less complete, cure until our American college groups, both graduate and undergraduate, come to realize that bad manners and poor sportsmanship are the marks of the mucker. . .." Honest President Angell stopped, reflected. "I have a piece of a goal post myself," he confessed, then quickly weaseled: "It was presented to me, however."

To publicize the planting of an avenue of cherry trees leading to the birthplace of George Washington near Fredericksburg, Va., oldtime Pitcher Walter ("Big Train") Johnson undertook to throw a silver dollar across the Rappahannock River, thus duplicating the legendary feat of the youthful Washington. Promptly New York's noisy Representative Sol Bloom, Director of the George Washington Bicentennial Commission, offered to bet 20-to-1 that Johnson could not fulfill the legend. When Fredericksburg citizens raised $5,000 to make the bet, Representative Bloom cabled to the British Public Record Office which cabled back that contemporary maps showed the Rappahannock, now 272 ft. wide, was 1,427 ft. wide in 1746.

On Washington's birthday 4,000 spectators lined up in ankle-deep slush along the river. Virginia's Governor George Campbell Peery refused to wet his feet, missed the show. Presently Pitcher Johnson wound up, plunked one dollar into the river, placed two more well up on the opposite bank. Official distance: 286 ft. 6 in. Representative Bloom, "too busy" to attend, refused to pay the citizens of Fredericksburg $100,000, pointed out that the legend was impossible anyway since the dollar did not exist in Washington's youth.

Up for sale in Northampton, Mass, was "The Beeches," last home of Calvin Coolidge. Last autumn Widow Grace Coolidge closed "The Beeches," moved out to live with her good friend, Mrs. Florence B. Adams in whose company last week she landed at Southampton on her first trip to Europe.

When fire flared in a private garage next door to his Evanston (Ill.) residence, Charles Gates Dawes stomped out into bitter cold, cheered the firemen.

As the Palm Beach season reached its height, Liberty Leaguer Alfred Emanuel Smith became a feted guest comparable to John Albert Edward William Spencer-Churchill, tenth Duke of Maryborough. Smith hosts included U. S. Steelman Myron Charles Taylor, Lawyer Thomas Lincoln Chadbourne, Sportsman Joseph Early Widener. At a fair held by Palm Beach's swank Episcopal Church of Bethesda-by-the-Sea, a Presidential straw vote showed: Smith 705, Landon 390, Roosevelt 0.

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