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

Marion Swenson, 17-year-old daughter of Capt. Olaf Swenson of the icelocked furship Nanuk for which Pilots Carl Ben Eielson and Earl Borland perished in Siberia (TIME, Dec. 9 et seq.), radioed the U. S. press that, now that Eielson's plane wreck was found, she and her father would proceed to Nome in another plane. Said she: "I have had a wonderful experience and I wouldn't take anything in the world for it, but I will be glad to get a glimpse of Seattle again. . . . Every minute of the time has been filled with adventure."

Ole Eielson, of Hatton, N. Dak., en route to claim the body of his son Pilot Carl Ben Eielson if and when found in Siberia, was met in Seattle by W. E. Borland, father of Mechanic Earl Borland, who died with Eielson (see above).

Said Mr. Borland: "It is too bad. Earl had such faith in your boy."

Said Mr. Eielson: "There are times when faith doesn't count for much. It is over and we must bear up."

Agents for Edsel Bryant Ford offered for sale his new, unused yacht Sialia, wrecked two months ago off Buzzards Bay,

Mass. (TIME, Dec. 16), "as is and where is in damaged condition on drydock at . . . Brooklyn."

Edsel Ford, Board Chairman Roy Dikeman Chapin of Hudson Motor Car Co., and other Grosse Pointe, Mich, socialites (Buhls, Gardners, Geytmrns) have built a $500,000, 608-seat cinema theatre To the opening last week came Radioman Graham McNamee, Actress Elsie Ferguson, Actress Vivian Tobin. Name: "Punch & Judy Theatre," Architect: Robert 0. Derrick, who planned the Ford Museum at Dearborn. Admission on the opening night: $5.

John Jacob Raskob & family, wintering in Palm Beach (they have rented the home of the late Buffalo Publisher William James ["Fingy"] Conners), were burgled of $150 cash, $75,000 worth of jewels.

President Wilfred John Funk of Funk & Wagnalls (publishers of the Literary Digest) had a composition accepted by The New Yorker (weekly smartchart). The composition:

OH, DOCTOR!

Mastoids, sinuses, and such Bother children overmuch: Sphenoids, ethmoids, frontals, and Ears are hard to understand: In the happy days of old Children merely got a cold, But a common cold is dull And the fee is nominal.

President Gerardo Machado y Morales of Cuba was initiated into the Miami Temple of the Mystic Shrine, at Havana. Last week President Machado received as "token of esteem" from the Dominican Republic a thoroughbred horse.

The Marchesa Marconi, wife of the Marchese Guglielmo Marconi, told of entering a room where her husband was conducting radio experiments. "My husband kissed me. I saw sparks leaping from his body and felt that I was burned under the right eye. That's the result of marrying a man who is always meddling with radio and electricity."

Onetime Cinemactress Alma Rubens (Humoresque), lately released from the California State Asylum where she had been committed as a narcotic addict (TIME, Feb. 25, 1929), made a redebut at a Hollywood night club. Said she: "Toward the end it became terrible. I placed dope on a pedestal. . . . I stayed in a cell with a mad woman for more than two weeks. . . . I'm cured now."

Maxfield Parrish Jr., 23, able son of a popular illustrator, was last week engaged in installing a motor test plant at Boston airport, where he works as a mechanic.

Richard S. White, son of onetime (1921-28) U. S. Treasurer Frank White, was sentenced to 18 months in Leavenworth Penitentiary for transporting a stolen motorcar from Minneapolis to Chicago.

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