Names make news. Last week these names made this news:
In Korea, Colonel Joseph W. Stilwell Jr., 40, son of the late General "Vinegar Joe," took over as commander of the 23rd Regiment of the 2nd Infantry Division. In Korea, Captain Clifford D. Jolley, 31, of Salt Lake City, shot down his fifth enemy plane to become America's 18th jet ace of the war. In Tokyo, the Army announced that Brigadier General Haydon L. Boatner, who restored order to the rebellious prisoner-of-war camp on Koje Islands, had been promoted to the rank of major general. In Washington, the Marine Corps announced that Colonel Katherine A. Towle, 54, director of Women Marines, would retire next May to take over the job of dean of women at the University of California at Berkeley.
In Argentina last week the city of La Plata (pop. 200,000) was renamed Eva Perón. So will be all the streets and plazas throughout the country which hitherto had borne the name of onetime President Bartolomé Mitre. So will one school in every district, and all first-grade schoolrooms in Buenos Aires Province. Many moppets henceforth will attend classes in the Eva Perón room of Eva Perón school of Eva Perón city.
The worldwide campaign to raise a fund of $700,000 to maintain the Ayot St. Lawrence home of George Bernard Shaw as a memorial was called off after nine months of work produced about $2,500.
In Chicago, where he started his professional climb to boxing fame 18 years ago, Old Heavyweight Champ Joe Louis announced that he had signed a contract to play the fight scenes himself in a biographical movie which will star a professional actor not yet selected.
In its question & answer column, the Paris newspaper France Soir was asked: "Would you tell me what the American national anthem is and by whom composed and at what epoch?" The paper's answer: "The American national anthem was composed at the end of the last century, by John Philip Sousa . . . was called The Stars and Stripes Forever."
Cinemactor Cary Grant confessed to a woman reporter in Manhattan: "At one time I had very little regard for womanhood. As a matter of fact, it's only recently that I have been able to accept women as friends. I had an enlightening, let's say. I suddenly discovered that women are born with great wisdom and serenity ... Now I can appreciate why my exes divorced me. I was horrible, loathsome . . ."
Here & there, romance faded and flowered:
In London, it was announced that the Earl of Dalpeith, 28, a much-rumored favorite of Princess Margaret, would marry pretty Jane McNeill, daughter of a Hong Kong barrister.