Had they been interviewed, some people who figured in last week's news might have related certain of their doings as follows:

William T. ("Big Bill") Tilden II, onetime (1920-25) world tennis champion: "Suzanne Lenglen, 'Pavlova of tennis', barnstorming the South in Promoter C. C. Pyle's professional tennis troupe, last week said to Atlanta, Ga. newsgatherers: Tilden has passed the peak. From now on I think his game will go down rather than up. . . He is a wonderful player . . . but the fire is dying down.'

" Helen Wills, onetime (1923-25) U. S. women's tennis champion: Asked about my future, Mlle Lengien, 'Cleopatra of tennis', replied with what some people thought was amusing malice: 'She is a great player. Her operation [appendix] may or may not hurt her game, but it is not her biggest handicap. I was surprised to find she is letting herself get fat. Helen is getting too big about the hips.' My coach, W. C. ('Pop') Fuller swiftly retorted for me that my figure is mathematically perfect has not varied for months."

Captain Rene Fonck, War ace president of the Aeronautic League of France: "A Manhattan perfumer, a Manhattan lawyer and I filed papers at Albany, N. Y., last week for the American and Overseas Aeronautical Corp., a company capitalized at $150,000 to back another effort by me, next summer, to fly from New York to Paris Hotelkeeper Raymond C. Orteig's $25,000 prize offer was 'merely incidental' to our plan. I intend to use another ship made by the builders of the S-35, the trimotored Sikorsky which turned a cartwheel as we were taking off in it for Paris last autumn and burned up two of my companions. If successful this time we might we hinted, establish a transatlantic mail and passenger service.

Andrew W. Mellon: "Last week my son Paul, 19, whose present interests are apparently literary rather than financial, was 'elected Vice Chairman of the Yale Daily News. Only a sophomore, he does not regularly begin to write editorials until 1928. In his freshman year he captured a prize for an English essay and was one of the first members of his class to have poetry published in the Lit (undergraduate literary monthly). Another Pennsylvanian, one Lloyd H. Smith, was chosen for the highest office on the News--the chairmanship. Two smart young men from Dayton, Ohio, will guide the News' finances* in 1928: one Joseph E. Lowes Jr. and Robert Patterson Jr. who is the grandson of the late John H. Patterson, founder of the National Cash Register Co."

Clarence Mackay, telegraph lord: "I got last week a first glimpse of my granddaughter, Mary Ellin Berlin, aged eight weeks, but only in a full front page photograph in the New York Daily Mirror, tabloid. As everyone knows, I disowned my daughter Ellin when she married Irving Berlin, songwriter, and I have also refused to visit the baby or let the baby visit me. The child, which was photographed asleep, looks like any dark, fat, healthy baby. People say this is the first time any baby's picture has occupied the entire front page of a newspaper. The day following its publication, my daughter Ellin said: 'Naturally my father could not have recognized me in the baby, because it was not my baby. I have never allowed the child to be photographed. The picture is obviously of an infant much older than mine. Mine is an image of me.' "

Nicholas Longworth, Speaker of the House: "My nephew, Count Rene de Chambrun, aged 20, was last week almost jailed in Paris for speeding in his car. The Magistrate let him off with a double fine; assured him of eight days' prison for a second offense. He, son of my sister Clara, is studying to be a diplomat. As his uncle is French Ambassador to Austria, his father General in Command of French troops in Morocco, and as he is also descended from La Fayette, perhaps he will make good."

Elinor Dorrance, Campbell soup heiress: "I last week arrived at Cherbourg on S. S. Berengaria, after abandoning my recent venture in work in my father's factories (TIME, Nov. 8). I announced that I had given up the work because my father disliked the publicity that attended it."

Charles Gates Dawes: "Last week it became known that fortnight ago, when I received my $15,775 check for my Nobel Peace Award (TIME, Dec. 20), I at once indorsed it to the order of the Walter Hines Page School of International Relations, which is about to be established at Johns Hopkins University. The check was forwarded to Owen D. Young, Chairman of the School's Trustees, by my brother Rufus, as part of Chicago's $100,000 allotment in the $1,000,000 fund being raised. Mr. Young, besides writing me a nice letter, wrote a more personal one to Rufus, in which he said things about my 'modesty,' 'generosity,' 'loyalty' and 'readiness to praise others.'"

William Bennett Bizzell, President of the University of Oklahoma, Norman, Okla.: "I held my breath and swallowed hard; I tried coughing, sneezing, pounding my chest, clearing my throat; I went to a hospital--but still could not stop an attack of hiccoughing which hung upon me last week for two days and two nights. It would have afforded me small comfort to know that King George V's chaplain, the Very Rev. Dean Albert Victor Baillie of St. George's (Knights of the Garter) Chapel at Windsor Castle, England, was similarly afflicted in Manhattan four years ago, while visiting at the home of Arthur Curtiss James, financier, yachtsman, railroader."*

Isadora Duncan, danseuse: "A year after the opera bouffe suicide of my young poet-husband, Sergei Yessenin (TIME, Jan. 11, 1926), I too determined to kill myself--or so my friends said last week when, at midnight, in Grecian robes and a purple mantle, I waded up to my neck in the sea at Nice, France. I myself stated that I did it on a bet with Rex Ingram, film producer, following a studio party. One Captain Patterson, Britisher with a wooden leg, rescued me from the waves."

David A. Schulte, Manhattan retailer: "When women enter my tobacco shops or candy stores I can often recognize the scents of their powders and perfumes as having been made in my factories, for I, as a manufacturer, am Vivaudou, and Melba too. U. S. women now spend on the average $6 yearly for perfumes and cosmetics, I figure, and in five years they will spend three times as much."

Patrick Joseph Cardinal Hayes, Archbishop of New York: "The $3,000,000 will of Lawyer-Banker John Whalen was opened last week. For signature it bore a cross, for he made this will three days before his death from pneumonia, when he was too feeble for greater exertion. Half of the estate's residue, about $1,400,000 is willed to Patrick Cardinal Hayes, Archbishop of New York. That might mean me personally, for Roman Catholic prelates are permitted to own private fortunes. But Lawyer-Banker Whalen's own lawyer, Edmund L. Mooney, an Episcopalian, who witnessed the will, says that the late John Whalen intended me to be trustee for the Archdiocese of New York."

Winston Churchill, Chancellor of the British Exchequer: "I called upon Signor Mussolini at Rome last week, and succeeded in convincing newsgatherers of the purely social nature of my visit by going out to the ruined Baths of Caracalla daily and working hard to sketch and paint them, facile artist-statesman-soldier-author that I am."

Mrs. W. Goadby Loew, daughter of Capitalist George Fisher Baker: "Together with Delanos, Burdens, Mackays, Wideners, Waterburys, Cromwells and many another Manhattan society family, my husband and I last week attended a 'circus party' given for Violinist and Mrs. Paul Kochanski by Mr. and Mrs. William May Wright in their apartment. Walter Damrosch, Josef Stransky, Efrem Zimbalist and George Gershwin took turns leading 'the world's greatest circus band.' Munching hot dogs and popcorn, sipping pink lemonade, we strolled among sideshow booths --'The Sword Swallower,' 'The Circassian Beauty,' 'The Fire-eater,' 'Mysteria, The World's Greatest Fortune Teller'--regaled by guest- clowns who under their disguises were clever creatures like Ethel Barrymore, Ina Claire, Beatrice Lillie, Eva Gauthier, Ruth Draper. These five brought the apartment down amid cheers and confetti as 'The World's Greatest Equestriennes'."

George Bernard Shaw, playwright: "It was after a dinner last week at the London home of Lady Utica Beecham (who is separated from her husband, Sir Thomas, eccentric, music-loving son of the late pill magnate, Sir Joseph --TIME, Nov. 15). Having finished our port and cigars, we gentlemen strolled into the drawing-room, disposed ourselves variously and engaged the ladies in what passes at such gatherings for conversation. There came, as there always comes, when celebrated authors, statesmen and clerics are present, a lull. Leaning negligently against the mantelpiece, I seized the occasion to muse audibly, 'I have a superior brain, but'--and I pointed dramatically to a corner of the room--'there sits the greatest living writer in England.' The man I designated was the Very Rev. William Ralph Inge, Dean of St. Paul's.

*Earning from $15,000 to $20,000 in each college year.

*President Bizzell might have taken an emetic, or gulped down some ice cream or cracked ice ; or tried some chloroform, musk or morphine; or put a hot water bottle on his stomach or cervical spine; or merely stuck out his tongue as far as he could strain. These are various means of calming hiccoughs. The hiccough results from a spasm of the victim's diaphragm, which suddenly descends and causes the lungs to suck in a draft of. air. The air strikes against the partially closed glottis to cause the characteristic ripping cough. Frequent attacks of hiccoughs may accompany certain nervous and gastric disorders, uremia, peritonitis, etc., and should have a doctor's attention.