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

In Cambridge, Mass. President James Bryant Conant of Harvard University confessed that no one recognized him when he attached himself to a group of some 20 tourists for a three-hour conducted tour of the institution, that he had thoroughly enjoyed hearing the guide point out his home, his onetime office.

Alfred Emanuel Smith spent the week of the Democratic National Convention golfing with his sons at Southampton, L. I.'s swank National Golf Links of America.

Out of Gloucester, Mass. for a summer cruise to the Azores and around Cape Horn sailed the 90-ft, schooner Wander Bird, with a professional captain, a crew of 13 schoolboys, including 16-year-old John Morgan, grandson of Banker J. P. Morgan.

Rich Long Islanders became jittery as the "summer phantom," a daring jewel robber who has baffled police for two years, renewed operations with his usual success. In Mineola Mrs. Clarence Mackay, the onetime Operasinger Anna Case (see col. 2), hid her jewels in the closet, foiled the burglar by leaving exposed an empty case which she found pried open next morning. In Mill Neck, while Mrs. George Bullock entertained guests on her lawn, the thief sneaked upstairs, pocketed $20,000 in gems. Same evening he crept into the palatial home of William Robertson Coe, two miles away at Locust Valley, made away with a three-foot rope of matched pearls worth $300,000, a diamond ring worth $38,000, enough other loot to bring the total to $400,000--largest robbery of its kind in Long Island history.

Lashed to a stretcher and screeching protests, eccentric Representative Marion Anthony Zioncheck was removed from Washington's Gallinger Municipal Hospital, taken to a private sanatorium at Towson, Md. for an indefinite stay. Let out in an exercise yard there, he sprinted to a 7 1/2 ft. wire mesh fence, scaled it like a monkey, outran his astonished guards to freedom. Next day, after a Capitol charwoman found him sound asleep in his House office, authorities gave him his freedom on condition that he leave for his Seattle home.

Unpopular with other prisoners at Alcatraz Island Penitentiary because of his wealth and scrupulous good behavior, Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone was attacked by the most desperate of his fellow convicts, a bankrobber named James C. Lucas, leader of the prison riots last January which Capone refused to join. Catching Capone at work in the prison laundry, Lucas plunged a pair of scissors into his back. Whirling, Capone saved himself from serious injury, fought off Lucas until guards rescued him. Sobbed the onetime U. S. Public Enemy No. 1: "Why don't these fellows like me?"

At Long Island's Manhattan Beach, Helen Howard, granddaughter of Brooklyn Bridge-jumper Steve Brodie, did many a trim jackknife (see cut) from the high springboard in the American Athletic Union's championship trials.

A Long Island florist addressed prospective clients by mail as follows:

". . . Anna Case Mackay is one of our most beautiful Japanese irises. She is now in full bloom in all her glory with many more glorious Japanese irises, acres of them, a sight not to be forgotten. I invite you to come and see. . . . You will not be sorry."

I WILL not be responsible for any bills made or debts contracted or notes or checks signed by Mrs. William FAULKNER or Mrs. Estelle Oldham FAULKNER.

William FAULKNER

Oxford, Miss.

When newshawks spied this advertisement in the personal column of the Memphis Commercial Appeal, they hustled to Oxford, found the famed novelist (The Sound and the Fury, Sanctuary) helping his wife stage a birthday party for their 3-year-old daughter Jill. Denying any family ruckus, Author Faulkner explained: "It's just a matter of protection until I pay up my back debts."

To satisfy storage charges, three trunks left by the late Cinemactor Rudolph Valentino in 1925 in Turin, Italy, were auctioned. Their contents: a wool suit, a cheap fur coat, three fly swishes, twelve sheets, 24 napkins, 19 towels, a corset, a pair of women's pajamas.

What critics called "the most amazing exhibit of delphinium ever seen in this country" was displayed at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art by famed Photographer Edward Steichen, who is also president of the Delphinium Society of America. Florist Photographer Steichen explained that his blossoms were the result of 26 years' experiment and crossbreeding.

Famed Poet Carl Sandburg prepared to issue his first book on political economy, The People, Yes. Simultaneously, the brother-in-law of Edward Steichen (see above) announced that he had satisfied a long-standing family rivalry by becoming president of the North American Pawpaw Growers Association.

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