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

John Pierpont Morgan took his first airplane ride.

The New Yorker, Manhattan smart-chart, ran an interview with Grover Aloysius Whalen, fine-figured president of New York's forthcoming World's Fair (seep. 35). Excerpts: "My personal investigation in Europe has conclusively proved to me that there'll be no war. Why, the uncle of the King of Egypt told me today that there positively will be no war. ... A wave of enthusiasm for the World's Fair is sweeping Europe. That's what Europe is thinking of now--not war." Also last week the enterprising Mr. Whalen was pleased to pose with a group of Radio City Music Hall artisans who, calling themselves "The Grover Boys," decked themselves out in phony Whalen beetle brows, phony Whalen mustaches for a World's Fair song & dance act (see cut).

Because she has overstayed her leave in the U. S., the Department of Labor ordered the arrest, when found, of Animal Tamer Mme Maria Rasputin Soloviev, statuesque daughter of "Mad Monk" Grigoriy Rasputin, spiritual adviser to the late Tsarina of Russia. Where Mme Soloviev was taming animals last week the Labor Department did not know. Continuing his financial retrenchment, William Randolph Hearst sold over $100,000 worth of art treasures including Chippendale chairs. Georgian beds, silverware of the Charles II and William III periods. Purchaser: John Davison Rockefeller Jr., who will place them in the Governor's Palace at Williamsburg, Va., famed historical spot he is restoring.

Josephus Daniels, U. S. Ambassador to Mexico and publisher of the Raleigh (N. C.) News and Observer, and Addie Bagley Daniels celebrated their soth wedding anniversary. Said Addie Daniels: "My husband has four loves: first, newspapers, next, the Democratic Party, third, the church, and fourth, me.

Ever since the U. S. Embassy in Berlin was damaged by fire in 1931, each new U. S. Ambassador to Germany has had to find himself a residence. Last week in Paris Katherine Bogle Wilson, wife of Ambassador Hugh Robert Wilson, complained that during the last five weeks she had tramped through 102 Berlin houses, could not find one suitable for the Embassy. Reason: to make room for Government buildings, Nazi city planners have razed residential structures, thereby creating an acute housing shortage in the swank Tiergarten district, where the diplomatic colony likes to live.

Thomas Mann, great & good German novelist (The Magic Mountain, Joseph in Egypt) who voluntarily quit his native land in 1933 when Hitler came to power announced he would apply for U. S. citizenship this week.

Two years ago, returning home from the Olympic Games with four gold medals, coffee-colored Sprinter Jesse Owens was hailed as the No. 1 hero of the world's No. 1 sport event, was besieged with offers totaling $100,000 if he would turn professional. Last week after unsuccessful personal-appearance tours, Profession Owens accepted a job as bathhouse attendant in Cleveland. Salary: $22.70 per week.

Indomitable Haile Selassie, deposed Emperor of Ethiopia who last November was reported broke, last week dug up sufficient funds to give the League of Nations Secretariat a personal check for 10,000 Swiss francs ($2,300) as part payment of Ethiopia's back dues. Embarrassed League officials, planning to recognize Italy's King Vittorio Emanuele as Ethiopian Emperor at the next Council meeting, did not know what to do with the check.

Sailing from Manhattan after his first visit to the U. S., Paul Vincent Carrol, shy, 37-year-old Irish playwright whose weekly income has skyrocketed fror $37.50 to $1,000 since his play, Shadow and Substance, became a Broadway hit followed custom by discussing U. S. femininity. Said he: "American women let you know right off where you are, but with our women it takes about three hours to thaw them out and then it's always time to go home."

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