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

At a private luncheon given by Editor Julian Starkweather Mason of the New York Evening Post, Alfred Emanuel Smith and Alice Roosevelt Longworth

met for the first time, conversed animatedly for two hours. Much of their talk concerned the Democratic Convention scene, which they both witnessed, in which William Gibbs McAdoo swung the California and Texas delegations from Garner to Roosevelt. Reported the New York Times: ''Some of those present said that, despite their traditional political differences, Mr. Smith and Mrs. Longworth found themselves in complete harmony in their views of Mr. McAdoo. . . . Mrs. Longworth said . . . that she thought the former Governor was 'a grand man.' "

Out of San Quentin (Calif.) penitentiary, where he had been seven years for killing a woman in a drunken brawl, walked paunchy Norman Selby ("Kid McCoy"), 59, oldtime middleweight prizefighter noted for his craftiness and cruelty in the ring. By plane from San Francisco he flew to Dearborn, Mich, where awaited him a job in Ford Motor Co.. arranged by Harry Bennett, chief of Ford company police, whom he had taught boxing in the Navy. His job was described as "physical instructor." Felix, Count von Luckner, famed "Sea Devil," mariner since he was 13, Wartime scourge of Allied shipping, went yachting on Lake Superior, was seasick. He said it was the first time. "The short, choppy swells got me." Real estate men of Pawhuska, Okla. said that Col. Zack Miller, smart publicist, was negotiating for sale of his bankrupt "101 Ranch" and Wild West show to Alphonse Capone & family; that the Capones planned to lease 40-acre tracts of the 17,000-acre ranch to a colony of Italian farmers. The show, they said, would be sent back on the road as "a Capone attraction" with Col. Miller as manager. . . . In Federal Penitentiary, Atlanta, Convict Capone has organized his own baseball team, is captain and first baseman.

At a garden party at Buckingham Palace Queen Mary espied famed Helen Adams Keller, blind & deaf leader, asked that she be presented. Through Miss Keller's companion, who tapped the message into her palm, Her Majesty said: "I am so glad you were able to come to our party. . . ." In the August Atlantic Monthly Author Keller poked fun at Big Business by picturing a tycoon in complete charge of his household. The tycoon begins by baking ten cakes at once rather than let oven-heat go to waste, then coaxes his children to eat more than is good for them so the cake will not be wasted. All kitchen appliances, freezing devices, mechanical cleaners etc. etc. he tries to keep in operation eight hours a day, feels cheated if they finish their day's work in less time.

From New York toward Barrington, Ill., to visit his mother & stepfather (Mrs. Fifi Stillman McCormick & Fowler McCormick) flew Alexander Stillman, 20, son of Banker James Alexander Stillman, in his own airplane. Near Gary, Ind. he cracked up, was taken to a hospital. Flying to his bedside that night in a chartered plane Mr. & Mrs. McCormick cracked up, were not hurt.

Dr. John Grier Hibben, retired president of Princeton University, accepted chairmanship of the Motion Picture Research Council.

In Milford, Conn, court Sylvester Z. Poli, onetime pushcart peddler who sold his New England chain of theatres to William Fox for $18,000,000 paid $4 fine and $18.34 costs on behalf of an employe who caught three undersize lobsters.* White-fringed, kindly Sir Henry Fielding Dickens, 83, sixth son and only surviving child of Novelist Charles Dickens, retired as Common Serjeant City of London. By virtue of that rank he had sat for 15 years as judge in Old Bailey, famed criminal court of which his father wrote in Barnaby Rudge and The Pickwick Papers.

Ill lay: Sir James Matthew Barrie,

72, in Paris, of a bronchial cold; the Earl of Lytton, 55, head of the League of Nations commission investigating Manchuria, in Peiping, whither he was flown from Tsinan in Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang's private plane, of a kidney and intestinal disorder; Princess Beatrice, 75, mother of Victoria of Spain, in London, following removal of a cataract from the right eye.

*Connecticut limit: 4 1/8 in. carapace.

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