Some memorable incidentes in probabilistic/statistica studies; Large deviation, tests, and estimates; Applications of characteristic function in solving some distribution problems; A chernoff-savage theorem for correlation ranl statistics with applications to sequential testing; Wiener - levy models, spherically exchangeable time series, and simultaneous inference in growth curve analysis; A note to the chung - erdors - sirao theorem; Asymptotic separation of distribution and convergence properties of tests and estimators; Density estimation: are theoretical results useful in practice? Stability theorems for characterizations of the normal and of the degenerate distribution; Estimation of the support contour-line of a probability law: limit law; Some estimation problems for the compound poisson distribution; A decomposition of infinite order and extreme multivariate distributions; Correction terms for multinomial large deviations; On a theorem of hoeffding; Sequential minimum probability ratio tests.