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

To the City of New York William Randolph Hearst paid $30,000 to satisfy claims for a fireworks explosion nearly 34 years ago in which 17 persons were killed, 17 crippled for life. Running for Congress in 1902, Publisher Hearst, as President of the National Association of Democratic Clubs, arranged a monster pyrotechnical display on election night to celebrate the victory which he and Tammany expected and won. Thousands jammed into Madison Square to see his well-publicized show. On a stereopticon screen flashed a photograph of Congressman-elect Hearst while rockets screamed and zoomed. A spark set off a defective mortar which blew up, felled scores with scraps of flying steel. Next morning Hearst's American buried news of the disaster on page five, made no mention of its publisher's part in the catastrophe. In 81 damage suits the injured and survivors of the deceased collected $119,000 from the City, which in turn sued Publisher Hearst and his papers. Judged liable in 1917, he paid $24,000 to the widow of a patrolman killed in the explosion. Not paid off until last week were the other claims.

Ostensibly to study U. S. dancing, Sarah Churchill, 22-year-old daughter of famed British Tory Winston Churchill, hopped the steamer Bremen at Southampton. In London, the dancing daughter of Poet Robert Ranke Graves promptly tipped off the Daily Express that Sarah's ticket had been paid for by Comedian Vic Oliver, who had offered her a job in U. S. vaudeville, plus a wedding ring. Instantly Father Churchill dispatched Son Randolph on the Queen Mary to fetch Daughter Sarah back. Meanwhile inquiring Manhattan newshawks found Vic Oliver in a Broadway Hotel. Spouted he: "Miss Churchill is just another girl to me. ... I know 25,240 girls all over the world. . . . I need a job myself."

Fortnight after he shocked well-wishing Ohio Democrats by plumping for Republican Nominee Landon (TIME, Sept. 14), Olympic Sprinter Jesse Owens was cornered at the home of a Manhattan police lieutenant, muttered: "I made the statement [endorsing Landon] all right, but what I do in the voting booth may be another matter. Almost everyone I have talked to has told me I was foolish and ought to retract. ... I am too young to know anything about politics."

At the University of Kansas, Beta Theta Pi pledged Freshman Dan Hamilton, son of Republican National Chairman John D. M. Hamilton. Junior Peggy Anne Landon (Pi Beta Phi) signed up for English, Psychology, three courses in Modern European History.

The secretary of Idaho's other U. S. Senator, James Pinckney Pope, told how his employer had lately been passing through a small Idaho mining town, had seen two storekeeper brothers fistfighting, stopped them with a "burst of eloquence." Their argument was over whether to accept 50,000 shares of new mining stock from a gold prospector in payment of his $1,000 grocery bill. Last week Senator Pope learned that the brothers had taken the slock, had sold it for $400,000.

In Muncie, Ind. for a State Convention of the Loyal Order of Moose. Past Moose Director General James John Davis, long-time (1921-30) Secretary of Labor, and now Senator from Pennsylvania, recalled that Muncie's George Alexander Ball, millionaire fruit jar manufacturer, had 40 years ago let a "young, broke and discouraged'' jobseeker sleep on straw beside a warm boiler. To Muncie's Ball, Moose Davis proffered 25 cents for his night's lodging.

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