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

Senator Key Pittman of Nevada stepped out of an airplane to a rickety platform, broke his leg, went as a patient to the Washington hospital whither he had been hurrying to visit his wife. Her ailment : a broken leg. She broke it while inspecting work on their new house in Washington. Reason for a new house: their old one caught fire twice last year.

Senator Kenneth McKellar of Tennessee on a speaking tour in behalf of Oklahoma Democracy, received facial abrasions, cancelled further engagements when his automobile collided with another near Lawton, Okla.

Muriel McCormick, daughter of harvester-making Harold McCormick of Chicago, granddaughter of John Davison Rockefeller, received a charter to operate Palm Beach Playhouse Inc. "to encourage a taste for music, literature and the arts through presentation of dramatic or operatic representations" at Palm Beach, Fla.

Prominent villagers in the hamlet of Balaton-fured, Hungary, puzzled last week over an intense, anxious cablegram signed by Poet-Sage Sir Rabindranath Tagore of Santiniketan, Bengal, India. When they had made out what was wanted the villagers went out and examined a sapling. "It is shedding its leaves," they cabled back to Tagore, "but its sap is healthy and its life seems assured." Four years ago the sapling was planted as a "Hope Tree" by the Sage. He is supposed to believe that the planter of such a tree will live for at least five years after the planting, providing the tree lives. The villagers' reply that the tree is all right was delivered to 69-year-old Patient Tagore at Lansdowne, Pa., where he was being treated for "organic weakness."

Mrs. Olga Mead, widow of the late great Architect William Rutherford Mead (McKim, Mead & White) gave Benito Mussolini 10,000 lire ($500) in gratitude for his aid in transporting the body of her husband to Rome for burial. Cyril Clemens, cousin of Mark Twain and president of the Mark Twain Society of Webster Groves, Mo., gave him as token of esteem the society's gold medal, inscribed: Mussolini--Great Educator.

Mrs. Grace Bryan Hargreaves, second daughter of the late William Jennings Bryan, was happy when her oil well, "Grace Bryan No. 1," gushed in with a flow of 4,500 bbl. per day at Venice, Calif., making her one of the biggest operators in the field.

Wilber Huston, winner of the 1929 Edison scholarship, sophomore at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was twice captured by freshmen, twice escaped during annual interclass roughhousing.

Dr. Albert Einstein turned down two vaudeville offers from London.

Max Schmeling, world's heavyweight champion fisticuffer, signed a $250,000 U. S. cinema contract in Hamburg.

With bitter, rhymed invective Pact Patriot Rudyard Kipling last week flayed the Cabinet of Socialist-Pacifist James Ramsay MacDonald for suggesting in a recent diplomatic note to other governments that "distinguished visitors" be discouraged from incessantly laying wreaths on the Cenotaph and the Westminster Abbey tomb of "The Unknown Soldier." Excerpt from the new four stanza poem:

MEMORIES The Socialist Government speaks: ". . . Our hour Comes not by staves or swords So much as, subtly comes through power of small corroding words. . . . Wisely, but yearly filch some wreath-- Lay some proud rite aside-- And daily tarnish with Our breath The ends for which They died. . . ."

Edward of Wales, whose position prohibits him from becoming embroiled in internal British politics, came out for the League of Nations while addressing the League of Nations Union at London's historic Guildhall. Said he:

"I realize that there are still in all countries some people who profess to have no belief in the efficacy of the League of Nations to prevent another World War. I would ask those people to think a little deeper. . . . I would suggest to those people that they ask themselves, if they mistrust the League, what possible alternative they have to offer for establishing peace and rebuilding world prosperity?"

Thomas Edward (Revolt in the Desert) Lawrence, Arab-fighter, who, shunning publicity, changed his name three years ago to Thomas Edward Shaw, reappeared under his right name as one of the signers of a letter to the London Times appealing for funds for Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie's archeological expedition in southern Palestine.

Ernest Hemingway (The Sun Also Rises, Men Without Women, A Farewell To Arms) driving with John Dos Passes (Manhattan Transfer, The 42d Parallel), near Billings, Mont., was blinded by another car's headlights, crashed. Mr. Dos Passes was unhurt; Mr. Hemingway fractured an arm.

Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh did not vote for his father-in-law Dwight Whitney Morrow, candidate for U. S. Senator from New Jersey, nor did Mrs. (Anne Spencer Morrow) Lindbergh. Though they live at Rosedale, N. J. their legal & voting residence is in St. Louis.

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