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

Samuel Seabury returned to Manhattan from a European vacation a few days ahead of Postmaster General James Aloysius Farley, who had quipped that he did not dare travel on free passes so long as the famed New York inquisitor of Tam many graft was also abroad. When a newshawk reminded Mr. Seabury that "General" Farley had visited James John ("Jimmy") Walker* whom the Seabury investigation had driven discredited from City Hall into exile. Inquisitor Seabury flared: "It was not an edifying sight to see the Postmaster General of the United States make a pilgrimage to meet Mr. Walker and to hear that he had eulogized him in Paris. Take this as you like it. I think it was a disgusting spectacle." In Manhattan after a European trip. Novelist Charles Oilman Norris gleefully commented on the absence of U. S. tourists in France: "I am certainly tickled to death to see that France is at last getting it in the neck. Paris has for many years been fattening on Americans visiting there. . . . History will show that when France is in power there is always trouble." At a dinner of radio manufacturers in London's Hotel Savoy. Edward of Wales prefaced a toast as follows: "Our tastes are not all alike. . . . Our moods change from time to time. One minute we may feel like a symphony orchestra, another we may possibly listen to a public speech ... or on the other hand it may be important to know what stock prices are or exactly what the dollar is doing. If the listener-in gets tired of any of these things--for example, if he gets fed up with one of my public utterances --your industry has provided a simple remedy in the shape of a little knob. . . I only wish that all other matters could be dispensed with so easily." Elected an honorary life member of the New York Evening Sun's Sun Club was Elder Statesman Elihu Root, 88. onetime (1905-09) Secretary of State, Nobel Peace Prize Winner (1912). onetime Sun dramatic critic, onetime Sun attorney. He accepted a .silver card of membership, commented: "This makes me a bimetallist.''

The Pratt Family, prolific seed of the late famed Charles Pratt, co-founder of Standard Oil Co.. held its annual Christmas reunion, as it has done for nearly 40 years. Some 120 of Charles Pratt's chil dren, grandchildren, their cousins, aunts, and in-laws assembled for buffet supper at the Manhattan home of Herbert Lee Pratt, one of Charles's five sons, board chairman of Standard Oil Co. of New York and Socony-Vacuum Corp. Among the guests: the George Dupont Pratts (art patron), the Frederic Bayley Pratts (president of famed Pratt Institute in Brooklyn), the Charles Pratts; George's Son Explorer Sherman; Charles's Son Banker Harold Irving: the late John's widow ex-Congresswoman Ruth. There were a huge Christmas tree and wreaths from the family's greenhouse adjoining their Long Island estate. Philadelphia police arrested a milkman named William Schultze who on threat of bodily harm had tried to extort $30,000 from Lessing Rosenwald (Sears Roebuck) to "go into the pasteurization business.

J. P. Morgan & Co. answered an appeal for aid from the "New York State War Veterans Association Inc." with a $50 check. After the check had been cashed Morgan officials investigated, found they had been duped by a petty swindler.

The Tournament of Roses Committee of Pasadena, Calif, omitted its usual invitation to lynch-loving Governor James ("Sunny Jim") Rolph Jr., sent one to Herbert Hoover instead.

Harriet Metz Noble Livermore summoned Manhattan police to her Park Avenue apartment at midnight, informed them that her husband, famed Wall Street Speculator Jesse Lauriston Livermore, had been missing since midafternoon. He had started on a walk after luncheon, failed to telephone her hourly as was his custom, missed a dinner engagement. While newspapers headlined "kidnap,"' police and Federal agents scoured the city. A taxicab driver who took Mr. Livermore to his office said he had become "terribly sick" in the cab. Day after his disappearance Mr. Livermore returned home, walking unsteadily, his face muffled inside his coat collar (see cut). His story: he had spent the night in a hotel, had awakened with a blank mind; newspaper headlines about himself brought him to his senses. His doctor's story: "Amnesia nervous breakdown." Pending against Mr.

Livermore are a $250,000 breach of promise suit brought by one Naida Krasnova, a $153,675 judgment for defaulted state income taxes.

*Last week the glittering $16,500 Duesenberg purchased by the city for Mayor Walker was auctioned for $3,400.

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