People, Nov. 12, 1956

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

The suddenly estranged husband of British Cinemonroe Diana Dors, onetime Pugilist Dennis Hamilton, set a record for terse explanations of marital collapses. Said he informatively: "It is a matter which concerns only Diana, Mr. Rod (The Big Knife) Steiger and myself."

White supremacy came, as it seems to come to many U.S. college fraternities, to Northwestern University's chapter of Psi Upsilon, which has no racial-discrimination provision in its charter. The victim: Sherman Wu, a freshman and son of Nationalist China's onetime (1949-53) Formosan Governor...

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