Names make news. Last week these names made this news:
Britain's Sir Alexander Fleming, 73, winner of a Nobel Prize for his discovery of penicillin in 1928, announced that at year's end he will retire as head of London's Wright-Fleming Institute of Microbiology, but scarcely to do any loafing. His reason: "[So] I can do more work . . . trying to discover more about immunity to human disease."
At the opening convocation of Brown University, the principal speaker, Yale University's President A. Whitney Griswold, an articulate man who believes that too many of...