"Names make news." Last week the following names made the following news:

Dorothy Parker, funny vulgarienne. was awarded the 0. Henry Memorial first prize for her short story "Big Blonde," published in last February's Bookman. Letters and telegrams to the north-woods retreat of Wilson Follett advised him that his story "Oak" had been judged second best. When he did not reply, second prize was given to Sidney Howard, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright (They Knew What They Wanted) for his story, "The Homesick Ladies."

Leopold Stokowski, proud conductor of the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra, last week turned upon his applauding audience and said: "This strange beating together of hands has no meaning. To me it is very disturbing. We try to make sounds like music, and then in between comes this strange sound that you make. I am not criticizing you. I am criticizing a custom. I don't know where it originated, but probably back in some dark forest in medieval days." Delighted, the audience clapped loudly.

David Merriwether Milton, Manhattan lawyer, made known that, like his father-in-law, John Davison Rockefeller Jr., he would go in for realty operating, would perch a luxurious $3,000,000 cooperative apartment house on a bluff overhanging the East River, at the foot of Beekman Place. Atop the building. Owner & Mrs. Milton will listen to tooting tugs. see the twinkling lights of Long Island City and Astoria, from a sumptuous penthouse.

Mrs. Arthur W. Cutten, wife of the famed bull-market operator, and Mrs. Al fred T. Martin, wife of the vice president of Bartlett, Frazier & Co. (grain & stocks), returning in Mrs. Cutten's car from a Chicago theatre, were stopped by five men who growled, "Police officers!" The Cutten chauffeur was marched away up the street. The ladies were then told: "This is a holdup. No screams or we'll shoot your hands off." The loot: $500 worth of jewelry (mostly imitation).

Frank Billings Kellogg, onetime (1925-29) U. S. Secretary of State, sponsor of the Kellogg Peace Pact, was given the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor, highest award of France, by Paul Claudel. French Ambassador to the U. S. Said Ambassador Claudel: "This red and flaming badge of honor could find no better place than across your chest."

John Coolidge, dutiful newlywed clerk of the New York, New Haven & Hartford R. R., read in the road's monthly house organ Along the Line that employes were invited to suggest names for a new Boston-New York flier the road was planning. Newlywed Coolidge's suggestions were last week published by the road's publicity staff as follows: Silver Shaft, Twilighter, Dusky Flier, Evening Star, Skipper, Shadowtown Special, Yankee Clipper, Seagull, Pioneer, Ace, Sea Flier, Sea Slipper, Blackhawk, Kingfleet.