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

Rushing to visit his wife & newborn son at the hospital, South Carolina's Governor Olin Dewitt Talmadge Johnston was knocked unconscious when his car struck the machine of Mrs. Marie Loop of Eldred, Pa., looped over three times on the road.

Fishing near Saratoga, N. Y., Pennsylvania's Governor George Howard Earle was stung 26 times by yellow jackets.

When Alabama's poliomyelitis ("polio") epidemic intensified, Governor Bibb Graves ordered all inmates in State institutions to be given an immunizing nasal spray (picric acid + sodium alum), made it possible for State employes to have the same treatment for 10-c-. Taking advantage of his own proposition, Governor Graves called Dr. H. G. Camp, Chief State Prison Physician, into his office, had his own nostrils well flushed.

Haled into a Woburn, Mass., court for driving while drunk, smashing into a parked car, was Robert H. Ickes, 23, clerk on a PWA sewer project, adopted son of Secretary of the Interior & PWAdministrator Harold L. Ickes. Announcing he would fight the charges as "political," Secretary Ickes snapped: "To attack me over a young lad who is an innocent bystander and just trying to make a start in life. . I think that is pretty contemptable."

Committed to the State asylum for the insane at Elgin, Ill., was William Rockne, 19, son of Notre Dame's late Football Coach Knute Kenneth Rockne. His disease: dementia praecox. At Carlton, Saskatchewan, Author John Buchan, First Baron Tweedsmuir, Governor General of Canada, was crowned with feathers, draped in caribou skin, made a member of the Cree tribe, under the name Okemow Otataowkew ("Teller of Tales").

When San Franciscans loudly applauded his harp-playing, famed Pantomimist Arthur ("Harpo") Marx stepped to the footlights, said "Thank you," broke a 13-year public silence.

Given a junket to Manhattan by his grateful underlings, Midget Charles Robert Lockhart, 3 ft. 9 in., State Treasurer of Texas, made a round of night clubs and burlesque shows, happily declared: "I'm going to have a good time while I'm here. After all, it doesn't cost me a damned thing."

The U. S. Treasury announced that, "not because of his circus but because of his philanthropic and civic contributions" to the city, the profile of the late, great Phineas Taylor ("P. T.") Barnum would appear on 25,000 U. S. half-dollars commemorating the Centennial of Bridgeport, Conn.

Activities of the Barrymores: Ethel, 57, announced by radio the end of her 44-year stage and screen career, told the world she would devote her time to helping "young players seeking advice about acting." John, 54. lying ill of a heart ailment, heard that Elaine Barrie, 21, with whom he last year had a "blessed relationship" but from whom he is now estranged, would keep the diamond ring he had given her. Lionel, 58, finished playing Andrew Jackson in MGM's The Gorgeous Hussy, began to prepare for his role as Duval Sr. in forthcoming Camille.

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