"Names make news." Last week the following names made the following news: John D. Rockefeller Jr., sojourning last week in Jerusalem, said: "My father is like Egypt--he has always good weather. At 89 he is still stronger than I am."* Alfred P. Friedrich von Tirpitz, erstwhile famed and defamed Lord High Admiral of the Imperial German Navy, now living in retirement at Feldafing on the shores of Starnberger Lake in Bavaria, near Munich, said: "Oh, well, perhaps I've outlived the times."

Prince Louis Ferdinand Victor Edward Adalbert Michael Hubert von Hohenzollern, 21-year-old grandson of onetime Kaiser Wilhelm II, and second son of Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm, last week landed in New York. Having just received his Ph. D. from the University of Berlin, he is in the U. S. for a three-week visit to study, like any European, "conditions." Sir William ("Jix") Joynson-Hicks, Great Britain's impeccable Home Secretary, last week punctuated his campaign against indecency (TIME, Dec. 31), in which he has already suppressed eleven books, with a Final Appeal. Addressing a meeting of British authors in London, he said: "If we all work together we may be able to do something to relieve our country of the stigma which is undoubtedly on it at the present time because of the outpouring of so much filthy literature. Gentlemen and ladies,/- I appeal to our better selves! Let us cooperate to stop the flood of indecency which is being launched upon the world." Upon Alfred Emanuel Smith was conferred last Sunday the University of Notre Dame's Laetare medal, highest U. S. distinction available for lay Catholics. Said the Rev. Charles L. O'Donnell, of Notre Dame: "The long and honorable public career of Ex-Governor Smith, as well as the fine example of his private family life, are known and admired by the entire American people. These public and private virtues are inseparable from the man's sterling Catholicity." The formal reason for the award was Mr. Smith's having achieved "such discinction in his field of special endeavor as to reflect glory upon the Catholic faith." Actress Margaret Anglin received the medal for 1927; Edward N. Hurley for 1926. Other Laetare medallists: Patrick V. Hickey, founder of Catholic Review (1888); Theatrical Manager Augustin Daly (1894); Orator William Bourke Cockran (1901); Attorney-General Charles J. Bonaparte (1903); Diplomat Maurice Francis Egan (1910); Essayist Agnes Repplier (1911); Chief Justice Edward Douglas White (1914); Admiral William Shepherd Benson (1917).

*Last recorded (TIME, Jan. 28), Rockefeller weights were: Senior, 135 Ibs., Junior, 170 Ibs. /- Including the Misses Radclyffe (The Well of Loneliness) Hall and Norah C. (The Sleeveless Errand) James, two British spinsters whose books have been recently suppressed.