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

The Town Hall of Fort Worth, Tex. invited Elliott Roosevelt (second son) to introduce his fifth-cousin-once-removed, Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt Jr., when she came to town to lecture on "Life in the Philippines." Informed of the invitation, she wrote Elliott that her husband's political views "differed in every respect from those of your father, the President. It would be embarrassing to all concerned for you to appear." Elliott obliged.

Phil Cope, University of Southern California senior, co-holder of the U. S. 120-yd. high hurdles record, dreamed he saw burglars crawling through his bedroom window, sprang up to repulse the invaders, hurdled through the window. At a Los Angeles hospital surgeons took 40 stitches to close gashes in his left hand and both feet. His wife slept soundly through his nightmare and leap. His greatest regret: having to call off a projected fishing trip.

Two Chicago gunmen held up wealthy Printer John F. Cuneo and his wife in their car outside their Lake Shore Drive apartment, robbed them of $170 cash, $25,000 worth of jewelry, and the car, after forcing the Cuneos' chauffeur to drive to a lonely street. Nearby, next day Racketeer John Benedetto was found dead with a bullet in his head. Mrs. Cuneo identified him as one of the bandits, presumably shot by his accomplice.

Novelist Gouverneur Morris (The Man Who Played God) and his wife Ruth appeared in the Los Angeles District Attorney's office when the case of their jobless friend Reid Russell's suicide was re-opened at the request of the deceased's mother. Under questioning, Mrs. Morris confessed that, on the advice of oldtime Cinemactress Lila Lee, she had burned a suicide note left by Reid. Still unexplained were such questions as: why Russell's body lay unfound in the Morris' lawn swing for twelve hours; why no bullet was found; whether the shot that killed Russell was fired from the rusty gun he clasped in his hand.

Dr, John F. ("Jafsie") Condon, eccentric Bronx schoolmaster and ransom-passer in the Lindbergh case, wrote a letter to the New York Times nominating a friend for New York State Boxing Commissioner: "He knows every angle of the game. . . . My opinion is based upon a long and intimate acquaintance. . . . The man to whom I refer is Mr. John Harrison Dempsey, called by the sporting fraternity by the familiar name of Jack Dempsey." Added the Times's editor: "All right, Doctor, but the name is William Harrison Dempsey." Restaurateur Dempsey was on his way to Miami, to lend his name and presence to another saloon, soon to be opened in the Miami Vanderbilt Hotel.

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