"Names make news." Last week these names made this news:
George V developed a chill after driving to a St. James's Palace levee, was unable to attend the London County Council's reception.
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In Bucharest 13-year-old Crown Prince Mihai roamed the palace scratching matches on the seat of his pants, a trick learned from a Rumanian Consul recently returned from the U. S.
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On his way from San Francisco to New York, Baron Henri de Rothschild, practicing physician, essayist, playwright, perfumer, big game hunter, winemaker but no banker (TIME, May 20), was asked by Chicago newshawks about international finance, the position of the franc. Shrugged Dr. de Rothschild: "It's too early in the morning to talk about world finance."
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Benito Mussolini signed an aviator's license, embraced affectionately, pinned a pilot's gold wings on his handsome 17-year-old second son, Bruno, after proudly watching him qualify at Rome's Centocelle Field. Son Bruno thus became Italy's youngest licensed pilot.
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Ordained a minister in the old Congregational Church of Salem, Conn, was Brewster Bingham, fifth son of onetime (1924-33) U. S. Senator Hiram Bingham, grandson of Hiram Bingham (1831-1908), missionary to Micronesia in the South Pacific, great-grandson of Hiram Bingham (1789-1869), missionary to the Sandwich Islands. Rev. Brewster Bingham, who during his Yale years startled New Haven housewives by begging food as religious discipline, jolted the Salem Ecclesiastical Council by declaring: "We could learn much from Karl Marx."
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Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, U. S. M. C., retired, packed away his 21 war medals until the Government pays the Soldier Bonus.
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An infected wisdom tooth necessitated the removal of a salivary gland from Cinemactress Kay Francis in London.
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Sax Rohmer, creator of Dr. Fu Manchu, arrived aboard the Berengaria to find a suitable demagog for Dr. Fu to utilize in setting up a U. S. dictatorship. Answered cautious British Author Rohmer to newshawks' queries: "What demagog? Ah, that I don't know yet.. I'm going down to Washington to get to know your demagogs before I pick one out."
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Honora Munroe Bruere, 20, daughter of Henry Bruere, president of Manhattan's great Bowery Savings Bank, made her debut in Broadway with a short bit in Post Road. Morning before she told newshawks: "I know that it is not myself attracting attention but it's the fact that I am my father's daughter."