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

War veterans voiced annoyance when 20-year-old Robert Harold Ickes, son of Federal Public Works Administrator Harold Le Clair Ickes, after graduation from Lake Forest (Ill.) College, appeared in Medford, Mass, with a letter from his father which landed him a $29-a-week job as an inspection clerk on a $3,000,000 PWA sewer project.

Dismissed on a technicality in New York Supreme Court was the suit of Actor Frank Wallace to be declared the husband of Cinemactress Mae West. Remarked Justice Salvatore A. Cotillo: "So he wants to be declared Mae West's husband? I admire him!"

Announcing that their new edition would list the Dionne Quintuplets, the publishers of Encyclopaedia Britannica breathlessly declared: "You may look in vain in the great 24 volumes for your Shirley Temples, but the even tenderer years of the five phenomenal children have achieved a memorial that took all of Methuselah's 900 years and all of Solomon's 500 wives to get for those two ancient worthies. Never before in the 168 years of Britannica history has a living child been given space in its pages!"

Louisiana's Governor Richard Webster Leche, a novice tobacco-chewer, squirted a stream at a Statehouse cuspidor at Baton Rouge, was so pleased when he hit it that he remarked: "I'm going to challenge the Texans to a tobacco-spitting contest."

Texas' Governor James V. Allred promptly accepted the challenge in Dallas but delegated the spitting to expert Expectorator Leonard Pack, chief of the Centennial Police. No chewer himself, the Texas Governor refused to compete because: "They say it takes time to achieve accuracy and poise."

Deposited to the account of Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh in Manhattan were $14,665 in gold notes--residue of the $50,000 ransom he paid to Bruno Richard Hauptmann.

Braintruster Rexford Guy Tugwell spent half an hour skipping stones at Edenton, N. C., remarked: "If a fellow could do this every day, he could soon forget Frank Kent and Dave Lawrence."

Adolph Spreckels, grandson of John Diedrich Spreckels, California sugar tycoon, was racing a borrowed outboard motorboat in a regatta on Green Lake, Seattle, when the throttle jammed. Roaring straight into the beach, the tiny craft leaped high as it struck, careened through a crowd of spectators, crashed on top of a sound truck. Sportsman Spreckels was catapulted into the air against a telephone pole where he hung by an arm impaled on one of the climbing spikes. Taken down unconscious, with the arm torn open from shoulder to wrist, he was hospitalized with one of the spectators.

Announced Flyer Amelia Earhart to the Woman's Christian Temperance Union convention at Tulsa, Okla.: "In flying at higher altitudes the effect of drinking is much more pronounced, the 'hangover' lasts longer."

Recited Author Gelett ("Purple Cow") Burgess to the Gourmet Society at a dinner in The Bronx:

A Bluepoint said to some Little Necks:

"Oh, don't you sometimes long for sex?

I'm afraid we're missing some fun in this

Sticking to parthenogenesis."

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