"Names make news." Last week these names made this news: In 1788 John Adams and his wife, Abigail, brought from England to their new home in Quincy, Mass, a Yorkish rosebush. Wife Abigail planted it behind the house, close to the library windows. That summer it bloomed, white & yellow. Last week Abigail Adams' Yorkish rosebush bloomed, white & yellow, for the 146th consecutive year. Following his release by kidnappers William Franklin Gettle (TIME, May 24), well-to-do Los Angeles homebody, let himself be shown off to civic organizations, Rotary Clubs, Chambers of Commerce. Such exhibitions wore away his last trace of self-consciousness in public. A "durbar" of the Al Malaikah Temple Shrine, of which he is an enthusiastic member, popped him into print again. Cavorting with 35,000 fezzed brethren in a ''Streets of Delhi" scene. Shriner Gettle took one "nautch girl" on his knee, wiggled a finger at another while photographers took his picture. Emporia's Editor William Allen White told the graduating class of the University of Kansas: "We have dumped at the portals of your life one of the most elaborate metallic scrap heaps that the history of civilization has recorded. A gaudy bauble it is. It shimmers with the simulation of bright reality, this modern civilization that we leave on your doorstep. It roars, it clatters, it shrieks and hums like a going concern. It will do almost anything but work. It is jammed -- may I say in three classic haunts, jimmed, gypped and some of it is ready to be junked." In the Administration Building of Chicago's Century of Progress a telephone bell tinkled. A clerk picked up the receiver, heard a voice: "This is George Dem. I'm on my way over to see your fair with a party of six." Minute later the Secretary of War and party rolled up in front of the Administration Building in a taxi. An out-of-breath reception committee greeted them, perspired with embarrassment, apologized that there had been no time to summon soldiers for a 19-gun salute. Over to the Army tent-camp strolled the Secretary of War, stood at attention while a squad fired A Century of Progress's first tardy salute. Followed by three private bodyguards, Mrs. Evelyn Walsh McLean went to a night club in A Century of Progress. Around her neck hung the 44 1/2 carat Hope diamond. Said Mrs. McLean: "Of course it's the real Hope diamond." Next night a mile away Mrs-- Adolph Zukor awoke from a sound sleep on the 13th floor of the Blackstone Hotel to discover that she had been robbed of a $60,000 pearl necklace, a $1,100 pair of diamond-studded lorgnettes. Five thousand curious Texans gathered at the First Baptist Church of Fort Worth to watch Pastor J. Frank Norris baptize Jack Dempsey Floyd, 9-year-old son of Outlaw Charles ("Pretty Boy") Floyd. Said Jack Dempsey Floyd: "I want to be a preacher or a lawyer when I grow up." In St. Louis, detectives pulled from a freight car a young man who said he was Outlaw John Dillinger's cousin Joe. Detectives: "Where is John?" Cousin Joe: "Haven't seen him for a year." In Indianapolis three men held up Outlaw John Dillinger's cousin, Howard, collected $5. When the drought in England became so severe that every church prayed for rain and London began talk of rationing its water, good Queen Mary decided it was time to set her subjects an example. She commanded the gardeners of Windsor Castle to turn off all sprinklers.

Cinemactress Mae West: "I am really a rather narrow-minded woman. When my brother was running around with a woman who drank I was worried to death and got him interested in a gymnasium and other things. I do not drink or smoke. I do not go to Hollywood parties. . . . Sometimes I work so hard that I fall asleep at dinner."

To Commencement at Lawrenceville School went Hearst Columnist Arthur Brisbane, to watch his son and his employer's son receive their diplomas. Next day he headed his "Today" column with: "An interesting young graduate is Randolph Apperson Hearst, one of Mr. & Mrs. William Randolph Hearst's five sons. Another, particularly interesting to this writer, is Seward S. Brisbane, who made the class-day speech."

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