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

Actor Hale Hamilton, elder brother of Republican National Chairman John Daniel Miller Hamilton, filed a petition in voluntary bankruptcy in Hollywood, listed $600 assets, $21,212 debts.

Arriving in Manhattan with his wife, the former Princess Nina Mdivani, Spiritualist Denis Conan Doyle confided to Manhattan newshawks that he was in constant communication with his late father, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Said he: "My father has never failed to advise me on my personal and business relations. Not once since he died six years ago has he advised me wrong. The only time I did not follow his instructions I was nearly killed."

Frank Hague Jr., 30, son of New Jersey's Democratic Boss, passed his State bar examinations.

Arraigned in Cambridge after ramming a safety island last month (TIME, Dec. 28), Harvard Freshman Glenn Frank Jr., 18, son of the University of Wisconsin's ousted president, was fined $5 for operating an automobile without a license, acquitted of drunken and reckless driving.

The Philadelphia Record reported that the name used by Oilman Henry Latham Doherty (Cities Service) when he goes to Temple University Hospital for treatment of his ailing throat is "Mr. Eggleston."

Alighting from a train at Ogden, Utah attired in his Rear Admiral's undress uniform, Explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd was taken for a stationmaster, passed up by the officials sent to greet him. In Kansas City's Union Station, a woman had handed him a lost purse. Said Admiral Byrd: "Begins to look as if I'll have to do something about it."

Feted at the 128th Anniversary banquet of Philadelphia's Union Society for the Detection of Horse Thieves and Recovery of Stolen Horses & Other Property, New Jersey's Governor Harold Giles Hoffman was docked 15-c- for violating the club's rule against smoking.

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