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

Said Queen Mary, inspecting a bust of Home Secretary Sir John Simon: "I like

Sir John's smile."

Down a back road near Freeport, Ohio, trudged a ragged, squint-eyed old man. His son was a cripple. He had sold his horse to buy bread. He now had nothing left but a dilapidated farm, a bank book showing 50,000 devaluated marks tied up in his native Germany. Into a WPAgency he trudged, gave his name as Karl Goering, shruggingly remarked that he is a cousin of peacocky No. 2 Nazi Hermann Wilhelm Goering.

By way of contributing to the Mark Twain Centennial, Librarian Asa Don Dickinson of Brooklyn College made public the full text of a letter written by the humorist in 1905. Librarian Dickinson, then of the Brooklyn Public Library, had forwarded a complaint by the young woman in charge of his Children's Department that Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn were mischievous and deceitful examples for children. Replied Author Twain:

"I am greatly troubled by what you say. I wrote Tom Sawyer & Huck Finn for adults exclusively, & it always distresses me when I find that boys & girls have been allowed access to them. The mind that becomes soiled in youth can never again be washed clean. I know this by my own experience & to this day I cherish an unappeasable bitterness against the unfaithful guardians of my young life, who not only permitted but compelled me to read an unexpurgated Bible through before I was 15 years old. None can do that and ever draw a clean sweet breath again this side of the grave. Ask that young lady --she will tell you so. "Most honestly do I wish that I could say a softening word or two in defense of Huck's character, since you wish it, but really in my opinion it is no better than God's (in the Ahab chapter and 97 others) & those of Solomon, David, Satan & the rest of the sacred brotherhood. "If there is an Unexpurgated in the Children's Department won't you please help that young woman remove Huck and Tom from that questionable companionship?"

Attracted by his declaration that the Republican nomination for President is "an honor no American can afford to refuse" (TIME, Sept. 30), the New York Herald Tribune sent a newshawk to listen to Bernarr ("Body Love") Macfadden, publisher of Liberty, True Story, Physical Culture. Trying to look like the vibrant male who had himself photographed in "classical poses" in the 1890's, Publisher Macfadden fingered a little pile of tooth picks on his desk. "I always say," he glowed, "that I'm 67 years old and 25 years young. ... I only eat when I'm hungry : sometimes one, sometimes two meals a day. ... I can solve any problem when I fast.

"If the Republicans nominate an old-line Republican they'll be beaten worse'n last time, sure as shooting. They've just got to nominate a man who'll draw some Democratic votes, someone outside the political field. That's my chance. Of course this Republican gang like to hold everything in their own hands, but I'm going to get inside them and push them the right way. ... I just feel it's my duty."

Squeezed for office space, the New Deal leased Washington's Rochambeau Apartments, turned out of No. 602 its archfoe, crusty, conservative Supreme Court Justice James Clark McReynolds,

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