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

When onetime world Sprint Champion Charles Paddock, now business manager of two Long Beach, Calif, papers, was appointed by a "Committee of Ten Thousand" to chase racketeers out of Long Beach, first thing he did was to go to New York to see youthful Gangbuster Thomas E. Dewey. Said he: "Since Dewey clamped the lid down in New York, Southern California has become the stopping place of many of the undesirables he chased out. We want to find out who they are. We also want to know the best method of getting rid of them."

Driver's licenses personally suspended for 90 days by Pennsylvania's highly kinetic Governor George Howard Earle:

1) one William Brilhart, Attorney General Charles Joseph Margiotti's chauffeur, for passing the Governor's car at 65 m. p. h.; 2) Hubert Earle, 19-year-old Harvard freshman, his own son, for being fined for speeding in another State, New Jersey.

Pittsburgh's eccentric former Mayor William Nissley McNair turned econo- mist, advanced the theory that business fluctuates with skirt lengths: with short skirts, optimism and prosperity; with long ones, depression. To prove his point he used a chart and a well-turned blonde named Ruth Morse.

Los Angeles' Golfer La Verne Moore legalized his alias John Montague. He dropped his birth name, under which he was recently tried and acquitted in New York State on a seven-year-old robbery charge, "because of certain associations that I want to get away from."

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