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

After an all-night session the Massachusetts Legislature was finally prorogued by Governor James Michael Curley. Making his early morning rounds in the State House, a guard found the door of the women's rest room unlocked. Going in, he saw a thickset, grey-thatched man without coat or cravat stretched out asleep on a couch, wakened him.

Guard: What are you doing here?

Sleeper. Know who I am?

Guard: No, I don't, but I'd like to know.

Sleeper: I'm Governor Curley.

Guard: How would I know who it was? I never saw the Governor asleep before.

To the June list of farsighted millionaires who made substantial gifts after President Roosevelt sent his taxation-for-social-reform message to Congress (TIME, Aug. 19). the Securities & Exchange Commission in a supplementary report revealed that John D, Rockefeller Jr. gave away 2,100,000 shares of Socony Vacuum Oil, worth more than $27,000,000, nine days after the President's pronouncement. By this gift Mr. Rockefeller reduced his ownership in all Rockefeller companies below 10%, will no longer have to report changes in his holdings to SEC.

To the American Philatelic Society's golden jubilee convention in Washington, Franklin Delano Roosevelt sent a "welcome to fellow members." Next day Philatelist Roosevelt had a new fellow member through the election of Philatelist Herbert Clark Hoover.

To assist Government and private conservation agencies in protecting and restoring wild life, 33 U. S. sportsmen banded into the American Wild Life Institute, made Walter P. Chrysler chairman, hoped for 10,000,000 members. Among the 33 were: Vice President Thomas Hambly Beck of Crowell Publishing; President Ralph Budd of Chicago, Burlington & Quincy; Publisher Harry Chandler of the Los Angeles Times; President Francis Breese Davis Jr. of U. S. Rubber; President Kenneth Raleigh Kingsbury of Standard Oil of California; President Alvan Macauley of Packard Motor Car; Herbert Lee Pratt, onetime board chairman of Socony-Vacuum; Richard Joshua Reynolds, tobacco millionaire; President Fred Wesley Sargent of Chicago & North Western; President Robert E. Wood of Sears, Roebuck; onetime U. S. Senators Harry Bartow Hawes of Missouri and Frederic Collin Walcott of Connecticut.

Richard Evelyn Byrd's diary, starting in The American Magazine, revealed the following detail of his seven-month hermitage in his Antarctic hut last year: "My greatest trouble is getting to bed at a reasonable hour. It was 2:30 before I blew out the light last night. . . . That's the insidious thing about a detective story.."

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