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

Of gas-station attendants Scientist Robbert A. Millikan said: "Why, they have improved the manners and the courtesy and the consideration of the American public more than all the colleges in the country."

--*--

"Well, thank goodness, he's croaked." Those words carried clearly from the auditorium jampacked with students of Ohio's Kent State College up to the stage where Dancer Ted Shawn with his group was miming the end of his interpretation of John Brown. A few snickers followed. Dancer Shawn played on until the last curtain fell. Then he raised a long finger to hush the applause, folded his arms and spoke: "We've played before audiences in New York and Boston, we've played before the hillbillies of the Carolinas and the cowboys of Texas, but this is the most ill-bred and ill-mannered audience to which we've ever been subjected. . . . Now that I have told you how I feel, we'll give you our final blessing and let you go home."

--*--

When Ada Louise Comstock,* president of Radcliffe College, read the script of A Bride for the Unicorn, spring production of the Harvard Dramatic Club, she decided the play "unsuitable for young college girls," ordered eleven Radcliffe students to quit the cast during rehearsal.

--*--

Aboard the S.S. Champlain on his first transatlantic trip, 11-year-old Prince Varanand of Siam enjoyed his first taste of spaghetti so much that he overate and was ill. Thereafter he continued to worry his fellow passengers by repeatedly stuffing spaghetti and losing it until he landed in Manhattan. Traveling on a diplomatic passport, he entrained for Washington, where he will go to school.

--*--

After a two-year fight, Comte Rene A. de Chambrun, great-great-grandson of the Marquis de Lafayette, was admitted to the New York State Bar. Lawyer de Chambrun, Paris-born, was banned from practicing his profession because he had never been naturalized as a U. S. citizen. To prove U. S. citizenship de Chambrun cited before the Court of Appeals a law passed by Maryland's General Assembly in 1784: "The Marquis de Lafayette and his heirs male for ever shall be ... taken to be ... citizens of this State."

--*--

Fortnight ago Mrs. Barron Gift Collier Jr., daughter-in-law of Car-Card Tycoon Collier, answered a telephone call in her Manhattan home, heard a timid voice ask $200 for the return of some stolen letters. Quick-thinking Mrs. Collier demurred, arranged a second telephone talk, then informed police. When a messenger called, Mrs. Collier gave him a bundle of paper instead of $200, later convinced her blackmailer that he had been bilked by his own messenger. Last week she dragged out to ten minutes her sixth telephone conversation with him, was relieved to hear him suddenly plead: "Don't grab me. I'll come," as police arrested him in an uptown telephone booth. Said Mrs. Collier later: "I never had an experience just like this. In a way it was fun, but once is enough."

--*--

Departing for "several years" in Europe, Pulitzer Prizewinning Historian James Truslow Adams declared: "A real recovery . . . seems to carry all before it, despite man's foolishness. . . . Almost no imbecility can prevent its rise. Even Congress will have to make some terrible blunders to stop it."

* No kin to Reformer Anthony Comstock.

This file is automatically generated by a robot program, so reader's discretion is required.