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

William Lyon Phelps, A. B., Ph. D., A. M., Litt. D., Lampson Professor of the English Language & Literature at Yale University, Public Orator of Yale University, President of the New Haven Symphony Orchestra, member of the National Institute of Arts & Letters, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, author, critic, lecturer, preacher, cheerleader,* clubman (Authors, Ends of the Earth, Fano, Pundits, Faerie Queen, Elizabethan), wrote as follows in his monthly department ("As I Like It") in Scribner's magazine for December:

"When I took my first bicycle tour in Germany, I noticed that the German wheelmen carried a whip in a receptacle attached to the handlebars. Upon inquiry, it was for dogs. I carried no whip, for l found a more excellent way. When chased by infuriated dogs, which happened three or four times every day, I waited till the monster got close. Then leaning over. I spit in his eye, becoming with practice uncannily accurate. The animal invariably retired. It wasn't the heat, it was the humidity."

William ("Noblest Roman of them all") Muldoon, onetime world's champion wrestler, longtime crusader for clean boxing, originator of state boxing inspection, was given a testimonial dinner in Manhattan in honor of his approaching 85th birthday. To it went folk like Elihu Root, Walter Percy Chrysler, Oliver Harriman, Felix Warburg. Toastmaster John McEntee Bowman presented Muldoon a portrait, a bronze bust. Thomas brought back a silver-banded stick which Boxing Champion Heenan had given Muldoon 50 years ago. Muldoon lost the stick in 1880. Darraugh said he had received it in 1890 from the late Sportsman Thomas Gould.

Headmaster Mather Almon ("Bott") Abott of Lawrenceville School, N ]., was given a trip to Europe and a silver service to signalize the tenth year of his service at the school.

*He once, in front of the Yale library, led a long Yale for Poet Robert Browning.

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