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

William Lyon Phelps (professor of English at Yale) wrote in The Rotarian for March: "The best new books for Rotarians are books designed for men and women who are intellectually mature; for despite the insult offered to the Rotarians of New York by their guest, Clarence Darrow, I find that Rotarians are usually men who are bearing the burden and heat of the day; men engaged in carrying on the work of the world; men who are interested not only in facts and in things, but in ideas." Among the books Professor Phelps urged Rotarians to read are: Charles and Mary Beard's The Rise of American Civilization, Mark Sullivan's Our Times, Andre Maurois's Disraeli, Gamaliel Bradford's Life of D. L. Moody, Carl Sandburg's Abraham Lincoln--The Prairie Years, E. Jones's The Christ of the Indian Road, Edwin Arlington Robinson's Tristram,ThorntonWilder's The Bridge of San Luis Rey. Professor Phelps himself is a member of the Rotary Club of New Haven, Conn. He is also the founder of innumerable little clubs without clubhouses. Last fortnight, for example, at a lecture he got one member for his "Am't I" Club, being an organization opposed to both "Aren't I" and "Am I not."

Henry Ford (reputedly one of the four richest men in the U. S.*) has a first cousin who last week announced that he had only four cents in his pocket. "But," said Cousin Henry W. Ford of San Antonio, Tex., "a motto in the Ford family is: 'Let every tub stand on its own bottom.' Until lately I have lived by that rule. Now--well, I don't know what to do." He also told how he was once a Latin and Greek professor, an inventor; how he made and lost a fortune in fruit in Mexico. He is now 68.

Charles E. Brickley (famed Harvard football captain, fullback and drop kicker of 1914) was found guilty of running a bucketshop in Boston under the name of Charles E. Brickley, Inc. He had committed four larcenies, one of $10,000, in securities belonging to a Mrs. Georgiana Boynton of Marlboro, Mass. His prison sentence will be pronounced on March 12.

Dr. Richard J. Forhan (4-out-of-5 toothpaste), in California, learned from, press despatches how bravely Mrs. Forhan had conducted herself at the fire that destroyed their Riverside Drive home and its Japanese furnishings last week. Cut off by smoke & flame, she ran from her bedroom with the front door key, threw it to the firemen, and then fell exhausted over a window sill. Smoke rolled out from the room behind her. Firemen, excited, turned their hose at the window; the powerful stream of water knocked Mrs. Forhan back into the room. She reached the window again and calm hands carried her to safety. To her two daughters she lamented: "My beautiful home. It cost so much and it never can be replaced."

John Davison Rockefeller Jr. gave $500,000 worth of Buttermilk Range to build Saw Mill River Parkway from East View to Hawthorne, Westchester County, N. Y.

Dame Ellen Terry, unique & famed survivor of the High Victorian stage, received last week a telegram:

"The Queen and I offer to you our sincere congratulations on your eightieth birthday and wish you a speedy recovery from your recent indisposition.

(Signed) George R. I."

When innumerable other admirers had showered the venerable & recently bedridden Dame with daffodils (her favorite flower) and many another birthday tribute, she gave out a message of thanks for "this delightful fuss" which was duly broadcast by British radio.

"Maxim Gorky," famed author of The Lower Depths, whose real name is Alexei Maximovich Pyeshkov, was informed last week that his likeness will shortly appear on a Soviet postage stamp.

General John Joseph Pershing asked his son Francis Warren Pershing not to row on the Yale Freshman crew this year. Reason: The General considers rowing too strenuous for a youth of his son's physique.

* The other three are reputedly Edsel Ford, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Andrew W. Mellon.