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

At the initiation of the Hasty Pudding Club two Boston newscameramen set up their tripods in the Harvard Yard, snapped Sophomore Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. wearing brassiere and panties over the costume of a Pudding initiate. On the edge of a crowd of students Freshman John Roosevelt, youngest son of the President, caught sight of the cameras, demanded the plates of his brother. Refused, he leaped on the back of the nearest photographer, wrested the negatives from the camera, exposed them to the light. Meanwhile the other cameraman was slipping quietly away. Long-legged John raced through the Yard after him, made a flying tackle, hung on until companions caught up and helped him seize the second set of plates.

Founders' Day Speaker at Wheaton College, Norton, Mass. was Author William Rose Benet. His subject: Poetess Elinor Wylie, his late fragile wife, who composed whole poems without pencil or paper and died in 1928 from the effects of falling downstairs. Declared Mr. Benet: "No photograph can recapture the distinction of her actual appearance, the strange, unforgettable beauty, the remote fastidiousness, the shy, almost scared aloofness followed on the instant by some impulsive gesture of affection or the kindling of her expressive face to some enthusiasm. She made the most diverse impressions upon people met casually and for a short time. She was beautiful, with eyes that changed their expression from that of a falcon to that of a kitten. They were strange, hazel eyes, full of valor." Having accused him of selling his country's military secrets to Germany, the officers of the French Army in 1894 handed an obscure Jewish captain named Alfred Dreyfus a pistol, told him it was the officer's way out. Captain Dreyfus chose to live. Through four years of imprisonment on Devil's Island he lived, while mobs rioted, cabinets fell, all France divided into Dreyfusards and Anti-Dreyfusards. Grey and haggard, he lived to see Emile Zola & friends clear his name, to serve at the front in the World War, to be raised to the rank of lieutenant colonel. Last week, to many a Frenchman troubled by L' Affaire Stavisky, it came as a shock to be reminded that Colonel Dreyfus still lived. In a Paris hospital, tortured by nightmares of Devil's Island, afflicted with gland trouble and nearly blind, the central figure in the most famed of France's causes celebres was passing his 75th birthday. For the running of the Langollen National Steeplechase on his Upperville, Va. estate, young Sportsman John Hay ("Jock") Whitney flew down from Manhattan in his new plane. Few feet above the landing field the motor stalled. The plane struck a ditch, nosed over, bumped owner and pilot into unconsciousness. With a black eye and six strips of plaster on his face, Sportsman Whitney went out next day to announce the races. In Washington Princess Julia Dent Grant Cantacuzene, granddaughter of President Ulysses Simpson Grant, regained the U. S. citizenship to which she was born in the White House in 1876. which she lost in 1899 by marrying Russian Prince Michael Cantacuzene. Regretting that she had been unable to get accommodations in anything more humble than tourist class of the Majestic, Mirabai (Madeleine Slade), British disciple of Mahatma Gandhi, arrived in Manhattan after a stormy passage. Said Mirabai, shivering in woolen robe and sandals: "Miss Slade died nine years ago when I renounced the world. ... I shall try to give Mahatma's point of view. . . . Who can say that he is greater or less than your Christ? ... He is my Christ."

Over the bow of the S. S. Majestic, one day out of Southampton, broke a wave so huge that it shattered four windows on the bridge, stunned Captain Edward L. Trant, commodore of the White Star fleet, with a shower of heavy, leaded glass. When the Majestic docked in Manhattan Captain Trant, suffering from an infected scalp, was rushed ashore to a hospital. In a Mineola, L. I., court, to petition that her name be fixed once & for all, appeared Princess Xenia, daughter of the late Grand Duke George Michaelovitch of Russia, divorced wife of William Bateman Leeds. On her complaint that ''Mrs. William B. Leeds" gave rise to confusion and that "Princess Xenia" was of doubtful legality, the judge granted her permission to drop her title, revert to her family name, be known henceforth as Xenia Romanoff,

Murder was the charge on which stout, genial Judge Roscoe Luke was bound over to a Georgia grand jury. One day last winter loiterers in Thomasville saw the judge step into a delivery truck, heard the report of a shotgun, found one Oscar Groover dead inside. Although a coroner's jury cleared Judge Luke, State and Federal investigators probed deep into his business affairs. Three years before he had resigned from Georgia's Court of Appeals to become a city judge in Thomasville because he wanted to devote more time to "business." Last week the State hoped to prove that Judge Luke's business consisted in defrauding the investors in his building & loan association, that only Oscar Groover could have told the truth.

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