To the memory of our dear friend, Dan Rudolph, from whom we learned so much Abstract. Returning to a classical question in harmonic analysis, we strengthen an old result of Walter Rudin. We show that there exists a weakly almost periodic function on the group of integers Z which is not in the norm-closure of the algebra B(Z) of Fourier-Stieltjes transforms of measures on the dual groupẐ = T, and which is recurrent. We also show that there is a Polish monothetic group which is reflexively but not Hilbert representable.