"Names make news." Last week these names made this news:

"I met a little boy in the streets of Antwerp one day," explained Rev. Dr. Adolf Augustus Berle (pronounced Burly) to a New York Herald Tribune newshawk. "He couldn't have been more than ten years old but he addressed me in perfect English. . . . Then I changed to French and his French was better than mine. . . . Amazed, I asked him if he knew any other languages, and he said yes, he could speak Dutch. . . . Then & there I resolved to myself that if there ever were any little Berle children, they wouldn't let that little Belgian peasant boy have anything on them. Shortly after that I got married."

There were four little Berle children, all prodigies. Oldest is Lina Wright who entered Radcliffe at 14 1/2, took her A. B. and M. A. before she was 20 and is now, at 40, a financial researcher in her brother's office. Second oldest is Adolf Jr. who entered Harvard at 13. took two degrees before he was 18, graduated from law school at 21, taught law at Columbia University, became a Roosevelt Brain Truster and is today, at 39, Chamberlain of the City of New York. Next is Miriam Blossom who entered Radcliffe at 15, graduated at 19, got a degree at the Sorbonne and now, at 36, teaches Latin at Dobbs Ferry, N. Y. Youngest is Rudolf Protas who entered Harvard at 14, took his A. B. and M. A. before he was 18. graduated from law school at 22 and now at 32 practices law with Brother Adolf in Manhattan. Father Berle made his children memorize Latin and Greek, German and Italian before they could read them, made them study straight through summer vacations. Said he: "It's always been sort of a joke with us that Adolf has become so prominent, because Rudolf could have figured in public life years ago if he had wished. President Coolidge offered him a job as Assistant Attorney General long before Adolf entered politics but Rudolf refused it."

On the first anniversary of her grandfather's arrival in the White House, Anna Eleanor Dall contracted measles.Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. was elected vice president of the freshman class at Harvard.

His ailing throat eased by three months in a Tucson, Ariz, sanatorium, William Hartman Woodin returned to his Manhattan home.

While Russian Prince Sergei Vladimir Vladimirovitch was pursuing his duties as part-time street-cleaner in Bucharest, he went to the aid of a tourist baffled by the native language. For this he was promoted to a full-time job as street-cleaner.

Reported Columnist Heywood Broun from Hialeah Park, Fla.: "Mr. Edsel Ford and I were on a horse together. We both had Scythe in the third race. . . . Each of us had $5 on the nose and another $5 ticket for place. ... He watched the shifting colors in the scramble down the stretch much as if he were a dahlia judge at a flower show. . . . He was interested but not in any sense carried away. Indeed it was fully 30 seconds after the finish that he asked the man who accompanied him, 'That was my horse, wasn't it?' . . . Edsel Ford beat me to the pay booth by at least three lengths. The window was not yet open, and he had to stand in line for three or four minutes. . . . Edsel Ford got for his investment of $10 the sum of $26.80. . . . 'Nice little plant they have here,' said Edsel Ford."

Pianist Sergei Rachmaninoff, sailing for Europe, aired his views on nine-year-old Pianist Ruth Slenczynski. "All these public appearances are bad for her. And I told her father so. The audiences applaud even when there are mistakes, and eventually the child will not bother to correct mistakes at all."

John Edgar Hoover, handsome young chief of the Department of Justice's Bureau of Investigation, declined a medal awarded him by the United States Flag Association as a prime force for law enforcement. Said Sleuth Hoover: "We feel fully repaid when our endeavors are successful and inure to the public good."

Forsaking his regular March trip to Augusta, Ga., Columbia University's olas Murray Butler sailed for Rome, Italy, with his wife & daughter.

Edward of Wales unbuttoned his double-breasted coat in London at the British Industries Fair. Plain to see, he wore no vest. British tailors promptly moved him down several numbers on their list of best-dressed Britons.

In Brooklyn, where she was appearing at the Paramount Theatre, famed Fan Dancer Sally Rand revealed that she had been offered "a big sum" to indorse nudism. Said she: "The offer shocked me. I knew that if I endorsed it, a lot of fat old men would join the cult just to see me without fans. It made me sick that my lovely dance should be confused with such things. All the nudists I ever saw had scratches all over their rear ends where they had been sitting on thorns."

To a World-Telegram interviewer Sally Rand explained that the makeup she uses on her body makes her itch. Said she: "Doesn't it feel good to scratch?" Her description of her dance: "It is just my interpretation of a white bird flying in the moonlight at dusk.'' Her tribute to Henry Sittenberg, who makes her fans: "Henry has been in the business for 40 years and since I began my dance at the World's Fair last summer his business has picked up 100%. He estimates that I have 1,000 competitors. ... He makes the best fans for me." Her family: "I bought my mother an orange grove near Los Angeles and I gave her a tractor for a birthday present. Her real name is Annette Kisling. My real name is Helen Beck, and I was born in Hickory County, Missouri. My mother has been married twice. We grow the best apples in the world in Hickory County." Her career: "I have been having such a good time." Other Rand observations: "It shouldn't cost anything to go naked. I like to be as naked as possible. ... I think my dance is the most beautiful thing in the world. ... I could just stretch out and sleep forever. . . ."

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