Had they been interviewed, some people who figured in last week's news might have related certain of their doings as follows:

Henry Ford: ."The National University of Ireland* last week offered me an honorary degree--in recognition of my Irish descent and for having set up a branch motor car factory at Cork."

Nathan Straus, 78, merchant-philanthropist: "To rouse Boston Jews into giving towards the $7,500,000 which United Palestine Appeal fund wants to collect before next June, I reminded them last week that 'the Rockefellers, both father and son, are devoting their millions to help the welfare of mankind, while a man like Henry Ford has engaged in a campaign against the Jewish people.' Then I added, 'If he submitted the facts to a committee of ten men of unimpeachable character, ministers and laymen, he would be fully convinced of the justice of my claim. Let him select eight and I will select two outstanding Christians, tried and true, to act on this committee.' Mr. Ford has not yet complied with my rhetorical suggestion."

Curtis D. Wilbur, Secretary of the Navy: "I gasped not with horror when 'Sergeant Major Jiggs,' famed bulldog mascot of the Marines, was dropped from an airplane in a parachute and drifted crazily down to the crowd of spectators at the football game between the Quantico Marines and the Fort Benning (Ga.) Infantry, fortnight ago (TIME, Nov. 29). Ladies near me shuddered, hid their faces lest the intrepid bulldog should meet his doom; some said, 'How cruel!' Bulldog Jiggs landed safely. . . . Then last week I received letters from the Anti-Vivisection Society and from the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals protesting against the aerial ride. I replied that the parachute jumper was no Bulldog Jiggs, but merely his plaster-paris effigy."

Fred Stone, stage comedian (now

in Criss-Cross) : "From Greenville, Ohio, I received a heavy brown pasteboard box, which I carried to the stage of the Globe Theatre, Manhattan, and opened in the presence of a notary public. It con tained several scrapbooks, with clippings, photographs, letters and a typed autobiography up to 1890 of my late friend, Annie Oakley Butler, ablest markswoman in history, who died last month (TIME, Nov. 15). There was no letter of explanation but it seemed apparent that Annie Oakley, with whom I played in a circus some 20 years ago, wished me to be her Boswell."

John Pierpont Morgan II:

"Marching beside me as I debarked last week in Manhattan from England was my latest acquisition, Junever, pedigreed Labrador setter which I bought from the Duke of Connaught for $525. 'Junever,' said I, 'is a good dog for picking up dead birds.' I used Junever while shooting grouse at my Scotland estate. I brought also two chests filled with rare manuscripts valued at $375,000, for the Morgan Library in Manhattan."

Earl Carroll: "I sailed last week for Manhattan from England, where I have just been enjoying a quiet holiday before my forthcoming Manhattan retrial for perjury (TIME, May 31) in connection with a party, at which one of my chorus girls emerged naked from a bath of champagne. Dining in London with a dramatic critic, I remarked: 'I find that in America leg shows bring cultured people all around me. In fact. I might be a prizefighter.' 'Then you would be popular over here,' said he. 1 replied: 'I might even be made Knight of the Bath.' '

Alfred Emanuel Smith, Governor of New York: "I had fun one afternoon last week. Having rested myself at the Seaview Golf Club at Atlantic City, I went to the railroad station to meet Mrs. Smith and some friends coming from New York. I was 20 minutes early, so a group of urchins with a harmonica attracted me. Espying a red-headed lad among them, I said: 'How about a Charleston, sonny?' The harmonica began to swell; the lads began to dance and wiggle. I tilted my derby, clapped my hands, shouted 'Hey! Hey!' while my foot beat time upon the sidewalks of Atlantic City. My wife and friends arrived, watched, were amused. When the lads were exhausted I threw them dimes and quarters, before leaving to have dinner at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel."

S. Parker Gilbert, Agent General for Reparations, economic "Emperor of Europe," aged 34: "I rarely dance. But my wife was declared last week at an elite and informal dancing contest in Berlin the best Charleston dancer present. Despatches rumored my vexation at the alleged ribald shout of a U. S. youth: 'Ray for you, Mrs. Gilbert! I'd like t' see y' "Black Bottom"!"

Tris Speaker: "'I am through,' said I, resigning last week as manager of Cleveland Indians (baseball). My legs hurt me. Sport-writers kindly recalled my 'brilliant' centerfielding, my leadership of Cleveland to world championship in 1920."

Leonor Fresnel Loree, President of the Delaware & Hudson R. R., and master of even greater rail systems: "The Holland Society of New York gave me its 1926 medal. In its estimation I had 'done most to promote the welfare of mankind' in my particular field. Upon accepting the medal, I made a speech, showing that in 1925 each freight employe in the U. S. "handled 320,019 tons of goods for each mile of transportation furnished. In Africa where blackamoor porters still carry freight on their backs, each is capable of but 152 ton-miles a year. I explained the three basic means of transportation--horse-drawn (having lost ground long since); the self-contained unit (steam engine); the central power plant with ropes of power stretching out (electric engines). I predicted the long continuance of the second of these, the steam locomotive, as the dominant means of accomplishing the main purpose of the railroad--the transportation of heavy articles over long distances. Electricity will supplant steam, but only locally. I described the discipline of employes and touching on railroad management, said: 'It is character and power of will that enables one, as a leader, to control masses of men. He must subject all alike, himself included, to that discipline which is a bond stronger than iron; more impervious than adamant. He must have not only courage and endurance, but also that indefatigable quality called "pluck," and, as well, instinct, that incomprehensible something which takes the bird to its nest in the vast sameness of the prairie, or the bee to its home in the hollow tree hidden in the labyrinth of the forest.' "

*Founded in Dublin, 1909, it has three constituent colleges: the University Colleges of Cork, Galway and Dublin. In 1924 it had a faculty of 163; a student body of 1,975. The Irish Free State has only one other university: the University of Dublin (Trinity College), founded in 1591; faculty 86, student body 1,350.