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

Mme. Marie Sklodowska Curie, co-discoverer (with her late husband) of radium, arrived in Manhattan, was greeted by Ambassador Charles Gates Dawes and Owen D. Young. She went to stay with her longtime friend, Mrs.

Marie Mattingly Meloney, Editor of the Sunday magazine of the New York Herald Tribune. Later Mr. Young showed her through his General Electric Co. laboratories at Schnectady. Then Mr. & Mrs. Nicholas Frederic Brady (copper, public utilities) took her in their private railroad car to Henry Ford's party at Dearborn, Mich., for Thomas Alva Edison. John Davison Rockefeller III, four months out of Princeton, pausing in China on his way to the Institute of Pacific Relations at Kyoto, said: "I told father I was due in New York Sunday, Dec. 1, to be ready to begin work [in his father's office] Monday, Dec. 2." His father's oak-paneled office in the Standard Oil building (No. 26 Broadway) looks down from 20 stories into New York Harbor. The work done there consists chiefly in administering the billion-dollar Rockefeller fortune. Rev. Basil Jellicoe, cousin of Earl Jellicoe (John Rushworth) (Commander of the British grand fleet during the War), applied for a license to open in London a "pub" (public house) called "The Anchor."* "I hope to operate it to show how public houses can and should be run. I think we should make a profession of the publican -- a great, an honorable profession. For that reason I think a publican college should be started where candidates would be trained first as social workers and second as first class publicans."

From Paris to Manhattan last week sped Art Collector Edouard Jonas with $1,250,000 worth of paintings and antiques to swell Manhattan's winter exhibitions. Included were Franz Hals' Portrait of a Woman; furniture used by Louis XIV; canvases painted by Ivan F. Choultse, court painter to the late Tsar Nicholas II. Court Painter Choultse will attend the showing of his work next month.

President Nicholas Murray Butler

of Columbia University, and President Abbott Lawrence Lowell of Harvard went to the University of the State of New York (Albany) to receive LL. D.'s, at the college's 65th annual convocation. Said Harvard's Lowell: "The aim or goal [of American education] should be as remote as possible, consistently with its being not so far off that thought of it can be postponed for the present." Said Columbia's Butler: "If parents are to turn over the entire training of their children to school teachers and to abdicate their own just authority and responsibility, we are faced with a situation which, to speak mildly, is alarming. . . . Personally, I am an incorrigible optimist. . . ."

Augusto R. Leguia, President of Peru, learning that Rosa Vega, young Lima maidservant, had borne triplet boys, sent her a present of money, assured her his government would provide their education.

William Vincent Astor lost a lawsuit, paid $5,000 to a Mrs. Mildred

Freschel for injuries received in one of his twelve New York apartment houses; also $1,000 to her husband "for loss of her services." James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney did not announce his return to pugilism but he did, in Berlin, raise his wineglass to some U. S. newsgatherers and say: "Gentlemen, here's to our better understanding."

*Bishop Henry Codman Potter once ran a model saloon in Manhattan.