People, Aug. 8, 1955

Names make news. Last week these names made this news: A day after Dwight Eisenhower announced that he is expecting a fourth grandchild around Christmas time, strapping (6 ft. 1 in., 170 Ibs.) Major John Eisenhower, 32, looking startlingly like his father's son, brought out his wife Barbara and their brood—D. (for Dwight) David, 7, Barbara Anne, 6, and Susan, 3 —to meet the press. At his new post at Virginia's Fort Belvoir, Infantry Instructor Eisenhower showed an infantryman's skill in fielding grenadelike questions right back at their tossers. Asked slyly if he expected his Fort Belvoir assignment (probable term:...

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