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

At the 81st Piedmont Dairy Festival Virginia's U. S. Senator Carter Glass crowned Elsie Triplett, of Fauquier County, Regina VI.

Henry Ford II, son of Edsel Bryant Ford, entered Yale.

Telephoning his home, Augusta 840, Governor Louis J. Brann of Maine was connected with Leroy Weathers of the Weathers Transfer Co. in Augusta, Ga., who accepted the collect call.

Because the identity of his father was long kept a secret from him, not until four years ago did Raymond Moulton O'Brien, British-born Manhattan oilman, suspect he might be the Right Honorable the Earl of Thomond of County Clare, Ireland. Son of his mother's first husband instead of her second, as she had led him to believe, he first learned of his claim to nobility when she was unable to provide him with a proper birth certificate, admitted that she had deceived him. Because no O'Brien has claimed the peerage of Thomond since 1774, the title had be come extinct. Last week, though in London representatives of the British Crown denied resurrecting the title, Oilman O'Brien proudly exhibited elaborately stamped documents which, he announced, entitled him and his wife to make their bow before King Edward VIII at his Coronation next May.

For the first time in their lives the 28-month-old Dionne Quintuplets played with their two brothers. Daniel, 4, joined them on the floor. Ernest, 10, tried to teach them to write.

In Amsterdam Publisher William Randolph ("Buy American") Hearst bought $70,000 worth of antique Flemish and English art.

His petition for voluntary bankruptcy contested in Atlantic City, N. J. by skeptical creditors (TIME, Sept. 7), onetime film Panjandrum William Fox, who claims he has to borrow cash to live on, explained: "As of Jan. 1, 1930, I was under the impression I was worth about $100,000,000. . . . But I found soon afterward I had estimated wrong. . . ."

After colliding with the official automobile of Massachusetts' Governor James Michael ("Jim") Curley, Louis J. Ferreira Jr. had his driver's license suspended indefinitely. Indignantly exclaimed Ferreira: "Some friend of Curley . . . took me home in a car. He . . . told me if I didn't keep quiet I'd lose my license. He asked me if I was working and I told him no and he said if I kept quiet I'd get a job."

To Stanford from Utah's Brigham Young University transferred Junior Lee Knight Jordan, 20, grandson of Stanford's first President (1891-1913) David Starr Jordan.

While first-night crowds jostled London bobbies outside the Adelphi Theatre, behind the curtain the milling cast of Trans-atlantic Rhythm threatened a walk-out unless Producer James Paul ("Jimmy") Donahue Jr., 23-year-old 5-&-10-c- heir, paid their back salaries. Though she claimed she was owed $7,250 herself, up sprang Mexican Actress Lupe Velez, crooned Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life to the fretful chorines, persuaded them to put on the $110,000 revue without pay. The show was a hit.

In Novelist Margaret Mitchell's best-selling Gone With the Wind, Harry Slattery, South Carolina-born personal assistant to the Secretary of the Interior, was outraged to read of an offensive poor white named Tom Slattery, considered suing for libel. Promptly Novelist Mitchell announced she had named her Georgia farmer Slattery "purely by chance, intending no malice," sent Mr. Slattery an autographed copy of her book. Said he, appeased: "A charming, amusing, vivid young woman."

Clad in a skirt of pink ostrich feathers, orchid bodice, and silver shoulder straps, Toe-Dancer Sarah Churchill, daughter of British Tory Winston Churchill, made her debut in Boston in four-a-day vaudeville with Comedian Vic Oliver, to whom she is reported engaged (TIME, Sept. 28). Insisted she: "I'm here for work and not for love." Said he: "I don't dance."

Ill lay: Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., Harvard football end, son & namesake of the onetime Securities & Exchange Commissioner, with fractured knee & ribs, in Boston; Cinemactress Claudette Colbert, after her head was knocked against the roof of her automobile in a crash, in Los Angeles; Cinemactress Gertrude Michael, with toxemia, in Manhattan.

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