"Names make news" Last week the following names made the following news:

The Rev. John Roach Straton (loud-speaking Fundamentalist) told his Manhattan congregation: "As one I rejoice that Lindbergh did not step out of his plane on the fields of France with a cigaret hanging from the southwestern segment of his lip or a liquor breath upon which the President of the French Republic might have hung his hat. ..."

Eleanora Ambrose (dancing partner and widow of Maurice Mouvet) returned to the U. S. last week, told reporters that her husband made two requests of her before he died: 1) that she "be good"; 2) that she retain his name in all her professional engagements.

Senator William Cabell Bruce of Maryland and Mrs. Bruce returned from Europe on the Leviathan last week, faithfully bringing home the favorite Scotch terrier of U. S. Secretary of the Treasury Andrew W. Mellon.

Senator William E. Borah of Idaho found that his sonorous voice had been reduced to a whisper, after an operation removing his tonsils, a fortnight ago. Nearly recovered, he talked to newsgatherers in Washington, D. C., last week with slight huskiness.

H. G. Wells, British writer, tied himself to a literary tradition by announcing last week that his forthcoming book, Meanwhile, would carry illustrations executed by H. G. Wells. Some other writers who have made money with books illustrated by themselves have been Milt Gross, William Makepeace Thackeray, Hendrik Willem van Loon, Ernest Thompson Seton, Howard Pyle.

James Joseph Tunney, champion fisticuffer, reading the newspapers last week, came upon a great mockery. A Tunney, his second cousin William, had been beaten insensible in a fair Manhattan fist fight. William Tunney had squared off at Policeman Paul Smith; Officer Smith had hit William, once.

Otto H. Kahn last week had delivered to him his new, triple-engined motorboat Okeha II, great, comfortable vessel, of the type that a score of Manhattan financiers have been buying to carry them swiftly from Long Island Sound summer homes to Manhattan docks. Mr. Kahn's boat cost him approximately $85,000; costs more than $100 daily to operate.

Damon Runyon (sports writer, murder trial reporter) described Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh's appearance during the ceremonies in Washington as follows: "He looked so frightened, and so very, very young that you felt your old Adam's apple working, and you wished that you might get to him, and put your arm around him, like you would do with the lad at home, and say to him: 'Now, looky here, sonny, don't you be scart, these folks are just trying to let you know they're glad to see you.'"