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

Refusing to meet Elliott Roosevelt the local airport, Pittsburgh's eccentric Mayor William Nissley McNair growled: "I won't shake hands with of the Roosevelts." The President's second son said he thought Mayor McNair "a surly sort of cuss."

When Nashville, Tenn. women tore the dress suit off his back, Baritone Nels Eddy called for police, asked them to save him from his admirers, take him to train.

In Manhattan, William S. Hart, screen star of 150 silent "Westerns," won a five-year-old damage suit against United Artists, the firm which in 1925 signed six-year contract with Hart to make talking pictures. A jury awarded him $85,000, found that United Artists had made only one Hart film, distributed it to second-rate houses, conspired to keep him from making more. Said Cinemactor Hart, who had asked for $500,000: "What those picture people did to me took the best years of my life, but thank God I have won moral victory."

Presented at Jasper Deeter's cooperative, experimental Hedgerow Theatre outside Philadelphia was Behold Your God, two-part "economic satire" by Richard Houghton Hepburn, 24, lanky brother of Cinemactress Katharine Hepburn. Behold Your God was the outcome of an agreement between Richard Hepburn and his father, Dr. Thomas N. Hepburn of Hartford, Conn., whereby Richard was to be "let alone" for three years to try his hand at drama. Professional critics found Behold Your God "dull." "extravagant/ "blurred," "inarticulate," "esoteric, ""luci< as a timetable."

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