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

A letter, from Thomas Jefferson to William Fleming written in October 1763 when Jefferson was 20 (one of a collection to be sold in Manhattan in the American Art-Anderson galleries) was found to read: "I do not like the ups and downs of a country life; today you are rollicking with a fine girl and tomorrow you are moping by yourself. ... I have thought of the cleverest plan of life. . . . You exchange your land for Edgehill, or I mine for Fairfields; you marry Sally Prior. I marry Rebecca Burwell, join, and get a polo chair and a pair of keen horses, practice the law in the same courts, and drive about to all the dances in the country together."

Mark O. Prentiss, criminologist, prime organizer of the National Crime Commission, returned from lunching with Charles Henry Tuttle, New York Republican Nominee for Governor, to find one Charles Faye, 22, looting his Park Avenue apartment. Noiselessly he snatched a Turkish sword-cane from the wall, forced Charles Faye at the point of it into a seat, made him talk about himself, made him demonstrate how, with strips of vellum and a piece of tin, he had jimmied the apartment lock. When his arm grew tired Mr. Prentiss changed the Turkish sword-cane for an Italian billy. Faye said he was indigent, it was his first "job," pleaded for mercy. After two hours Mr. Prentiss, well satisfied with his "experiment," turned Faye over to police who made him confess to 16 midtown burglaries. Said Prentiss: "It was the most interesting experience I have ever had. He told me he was a painter, but when I examined his hands I knew that wasn't true. Of course, I never had any idea of letting him go. I've had too much experience for that."

Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise, zealous worker for the Jewish Palestine Homeland, No. 1 U. S. rabbi, collapsed from nervous indigestion and overwork at the Half Moon Hotel, Coney Island, N. Y., whence he had gone, for seclusion and rest. His attending physician announced that Rabbi Wise was "withdrawing indefinitely" from all duties, would probably not attend the Palestine conference at London on Nov. 6 (see p. 20).

Nikolai Sokoloff, conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra, whom Evangelist William Ashley ("Billy") Sunday called "a dirty foreigner," because of his promise to give $100 to the anti-Prohibition work of the Crusaders (TIME, Oct. 27), doubled his subscription, fired back at Sunday before a Crusader luncheon at Cleveland: "I have lived here 30 years as a citizen of the United States. . . . Whatever career I have had has been here. ... I have yet to see the inside of a jail. Yet this gentleman [Evangelist Sunday] says that ... all of foreign blood are 'foreigners and dirty crooks'. ... I am disgusted to think that a church would permit such a clown--not a funny clown for the amusement of the children --but a clown like this man, who destroys all the beautiful quality that religion should have, to occupy its platform."

Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis was given a testimonial dinner by Philadelphians. Senator George Wharton Pepper called him "the ideal American.'' Said Publisher Curtis: "I never expected to have anything of this sort happen to me."

Just after the Palace of Versailles gates closed for the day. a gentleman asked permission to enter, was brusquely rejected. He was John Davison Rockefeller Jr., who has given $1,500,000 to the monument's restoration.

Howard Thurston, stage magician, was ordered to pay $20,000 to a Mrs. Evan Charous of Whitestone, L. I., because in 1924 a Thurston-owned monkey escaped into the complainant's backyard, bit her then six-year-old son, made him an epileptic.

Artist Rockwell Kent won his suit (TIME, Feb. 17) against Delaware & Hudson R. R. for resumption of passenger service on a 40-mi. spur between Ausable Forks (pop. 2,000), where he lives on a 200-acre farm, and Plattsburg, N. Y.* The Public Service Commission reversed an April decision, ordered D. & H. to begin service by Nov. 3.

*Stations: Ausable Forks, Rogers, Arnold, Harkness, Peru, Lapham Mills, Salmon River, South Junction, Bluff Point, Cliff Haven, Plattsburg.

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