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

Maryland's Governor Harry Nice had his right eye removed at Johns Hopkins.

Political foes cut the whiskers and eyebrows off Aurelio Manriques, Director of Mexico City's National Library, and Congressional candidate opposed to the Government party. When he was exiled in Hollywood, Extra-Player Manriques made his living on his beard.

Actress Elaine Barrie Barrymore appeared in a short film entitled How to Undress Before Your Husband. Ex-Husband John Barrymore protested her using his family name.

In a Riverside, Calif. court, Dr. Jesse Citron sued Funnyman W. C. Fields for a $12,000 fee. Funnyman Fields said that was $11,000 too much. Dr. Citron said Funnyman Fields had suffered from bronchopneumonia, a bone disease, arthritis, and before he began to treat Fields, the comedian drank two quarts of whiskey a day. The doctor had cut him down to an ounce and a half. Spluttered Funnyman Fields, "Two quarts a day indeed! I'm horrified! I never drank two quarts a day! Not even in the good old days!'' The court ruled that the fee was a just one. Gasped Funnyman Fields, "I'm d -- --, er -- --, flabbergasted."

A member of Delta Upsilon fraternity of University of Kansas wrote to Brother Stephen Crane (Syracuse):

"Dear Brother Crane:

"We are attempting to enlarge our collection of pictures of prominent D. U.s. I feel certain that a picture of one so prominent in public affairs as you will do much to impress visitors and rushees of our chapter at Lawrence. If it causes you no great inconvenience, we will be most pleased to receive a picture of you."

The Stephen Crane Association did not reply. Author Crane died June 5, 1900.

In a Manhattan Magistrate's Court, Writer Adela Rogers St. John & friends agreed with employes of "Bill's Gay Nineties" saloon to drop mutual charges of simple assault (TIME, June 7), arising from a street brawl last month. Before he would release them, Magistrate Henry H. Curran moralized:

"There comes a night when we all get tight

And we drink queer drinks and we think queer thinks

And the world seems full of skating rinks.

Nobody cares if you fall downstairs

And nobody cares if the landlord swears."*

*Quoting the late Actor Raymond Hitchcock.

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