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

Grassy Point, N. Y., birthplace of Postmaster General James Aloysius Farley,

closed its post office. Reason: no business.

At a ball to benefit the South Central (Negro) district of Chicago's United Charities fortnight hence, 5,000 whites & blacks will gather to hear Negress Ethel

Waters sing, numerous varicolored name-bands play, watch dusky, graceful Marva Trotter (Mrs. Joe) Louis and white, gracious Irene Castle McLaughlin model their own clothes. Last week Mesdames Louis and Castle met to discuss plans, pose for pictures (see cut).

At Nashville, Tenn. Dudley Leigh Aman Baron Marley, deputy speaker of Britain's House of Lords, watched his first U. S. football game. His comment: "The game is considerably slower than our rugby because of the frequent little committee meetings in which the players indulge."

Osa Leighty Johnson brought suit for $502,539 damages against Western Air Express Corp. and others for having deprived her of 20 future years' support when her husband, Jungle-Explorer Martin Elmer Johnson died following last January's air crash near Burbank, Calif. (TIME, Jan. 25). Among defendants she named her sister-in-law, Frieda Johnson Cripts, in a legal move to find out what claims if any Mrs. Cripts has on the explorer's estate.

Lecturing in Manhattan at the annual dinner of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Dr. Earnest Albert Hooton, Harvard professor of anthropology, author of Apes, Men and Morons (TIME, Nov. 8), declared: "Man made himself out of the ape, partly by becoming an engineer. The danger now is that the engineers will make apes of all of us." When asked why the pockets of his lost & found overcoat contained fish-hooks, Col. Theodore Roosevelt explained: "I captured [them] from the New Deal. They had been using them to catch suckers."

Gaunt Old Dr. Francis Everett ("The Plan") Townsend told Detroit's Recorder's Court Judge Edward J. Jeffries a joke: "The President went fishing once and forgot his bait. He looked over the side of the boat, cleared his throat, and said: 'My friends--.' A thousand suckers stuck their heads out of the water."

In response to notice from shapely, 23-year-old Cinemactress Dorothy Lamour, wife of an orchestra leader, that she would quit films Dec. 10, 1938, to lay plans to have a child, Paramount suggested that she compromise, adopt one. She declined. Ivan F. Cox, deposed secretary-treasurer of Harry Bridges' San Francisco longshoremen's union, filed suit against 5,000 Jane & John Does, Longshoreman Bridges and other union officials, Cinemactors Fredric March, Franchot Tone, Mary Astor, James Cagney, Lionel Stander, Jean Muir, and Director William Dieterle. Charge: Led by Cinemactor March, the group had conspired to propagate Communism on the Pacific Coast, causing Mr. Cox to lose his job. Damages asked: $5,100,000. Mr. Cox announced that if he won his case he would donate $5,000,000 to the rescued State of California, retain the rest as personal balm.

With the Normandie due to sail from Manhattan at 11 a. m., Biographer Emil

Ludwig reached Customs at 10:50, waited while a clerk ran out to buy a $130 money order to satisfy back Ludwig taxes. Met on the dock at 11:11 by reporters, whom he seldom jilts, Author Ludwig removed his glasses, struck a pose, chatted until the Normandie had cast off without him. Explaining he had stayed up most of the previous night finishing his Life of Roosevelt, he sailed an hour later on the Aquitania, protesting: "I like French cooking better than English."

Sarah Keese Arnold Flavin, wife of Pulitzer Prize Dramatist Martin Flavin (The Criminal Code, The Last Mile, Children of the Moon), set out one midmorning to take pictures near precipitous Yankee Cliff, overlooking Monterey Bay, Calif. She failed to return. On rocks below the bluff, CCC searchers found her camera, a shoe.

Oklahoma's silver-tongued Joshua Bryan Lee defined for fellow Congressmen the "only difference" between Oklahoma's State University and Oklahoma's State insane asylum, both in his home city (Norman): "You have to show mental improvement to get out of the asylum."

"I have been thinking," said Boston's William Cardinal O'Connell (see p. 35) to reporters on the eve of his 78th birthday, "of writing a movie scenario. It would be about an idealistic man beset by all the dangers and hardships which can come to man. At the end he would die-- not triumphantly, for that would be too banal--but still suffering and happy in his faith." Few hours later a Manhattan literary & cinema agency rushed word to the Cardinal that unnamed film producers, hungry for religious scripts, had offered their best ghosts to aid His Eminence in the writing.

Robert Taylor arrived unshaven on the Queen Mary, refused to bare his chest for curious ship newshawks.

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