"Names make news." Last week these names made this news:
Driving in Dublin, Irish Free State President Eamon de Valera and his daughter Maureen collided with a butcher's truck.
Friends gave Illinois' Governor Henry Hornet a cigar store Indian. He had always wanted one.
Under house arrest at his estate in Snagov, Prince Nicholas of Rumania, stripped by his brother King Carol of all royal and military rights (TIME, April 19), assumed the name of Mr. Bran (from one of his mother's castles in Transylvania), wrote a letter shushing the Iron Guard's Nicholas-for-King agitation which had alarmed Carol.
Manhattan Lawyer Alfred Emanuel Smith Jr. was summoned to court in Syracuse, N. Y. for failure to pay his wife $150-a-month alimony pending trial of her separation suit.
In Manhattan arrived Giulio Marconi, 26, only son of Guglielmo Marconi, inventor of wireless telegraphy, to spend two years studying with Radio Corporation of America.
At Brown University Charles Evans Hughes III won the $150 Gaston Prize in oratory with a speech on The United States and the Next War, was thereby entitled to deliver one of the student addresses at Commencement this June, as were his father and grandfather, the Chief Justice, at their Brown Commencements.
Off Cinemactor Lee Tracy's yacht Adore fell his 72-year-old mother into Santa Monica harbor, whence she was rescued by her son who dived in fully clothed. Treated for shock and exposure, Mrs. Tracy was removed to her Beverly Hills apartment, where three days later the gas heater caught fire, burned up $250 worth of her clothing.
Felix, Count von Luckner, famed Wartime sea raider, sailed from Stettin, Germany in the schooner Seeteufel ("Sea Devil") on a two-year, 16,000-mi. world cruise "not after ships, but out to capture hearts for Germany."
A Croydon, England police court imposed in absentia a $5 fine for speeding upon Aviatrix Amy Johnson Mollison, who cabled from the U. S. expressing "extreme regret at the unintentional offense."
Eccentric Harry Kendall Thaw, 67, who killed Stanford White for seducing his wife, turned up in Berlin after eye treatments in Paris, regretted that he could not enjoy "the best blondes and beer in the world." Said he: "I wish I could see them better. The blondes, I mean. Going to a nightclub when you can't see is like going for a ride on a scenic railway during an eclipse."
At Yokohama, famed blind & deaf Helen Adams Keller debarked with her secretary Peggy Thompson amid thunderous cheers to begin a Japanese lecture tour during which she was to be received by Emperor Hirohito. Newspapers greeted her as "the American miracle woman," and she cried to the welcoming crowd in Japanese: "Hail, beautiful Japan! I have received a most wonderful greeting which has strengthened me. I shall bear myself with strength forever." Few minutes later a pickpocket stole her purse containing $60. Next day an anonymous Japanese vindicated his country's honor by leaving $60 at Miss Keller's hotel. Miss Keller donated the $60 to Japan's blind relief fund.