Names make news. Last week these names made this news:
The central Italian village of Collodi (pop. 1,400), where Carlo Lorenzini ("Collodi") wrote the story of Pinocchio in 1880, has been collecting pennies from schoolchildren the world over to build a monument to its famous little wooden-headed citizen. Each contributor has received a certificate entitling him to tell one harmless lie a week without damage to his nose. Last week such a license was on its way to Walt Disney, who filmed the story of the puppet in 1939 and who had sent a contribution of $160.
Washington legal circles learned that Joseph C. O'Mahoney, defeated in November for re-election as Democratic Senator from Wyoming, will be one of the defense lawyers in the perjury trial of Far Eastern Expert Owen Lattimore next March. The full defense team will include old New Dealers Thurman Arnold, Abe Fortas and Paul A. Porter.
A pension-conscious reporter asked the Pentagon about the future pay of a few officers who are about to retire. The answer: Reserve Colonel Harry Truman, Field Artillery, will get retirement pay of $112.56 a month. His old friend and aide Harry Vaughan will retire with 75% of his major general's base pay, plus a 40% disability claim, which will bring his monthly check to at least $744.70.
Buckingham Palace announced that some of the Queen's old heroes would have their place of due honor at the coronation: Viscount Cunningham, former First Sea Lord and hero of the Mediterranean, will carry St. Edward's crown into the Abbey; Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein will bear the royal standard; Viscount Portal, World War II Air Chief of Staff, will bear the scepter with the cross; and Earl Alexander of Tunis, Defense Minister, will carry the orb, a golden globe with jeweled cross, symbolic of the sovereignty of Christ.
Hair stylists in Washington detected a new trend in coiffures inspired by Mamie Eisenhower and her bangs. Customers from 16 to 60 were responding to an ad urging them to get the "Mamie Cut"; and for those whose hair is too short for the Eisenhower cut, salons had falsie bangs available from $5 to $15.
The Duke of Edinburgh, Commander, R.N., who made his first solo flight last month, got some pre-coronation promotions from his wife, the Queen. He was named Air Marshal of the R.A.F., Admiral of the Fleet, Field Marshal of the Army.
Richard Nixon told a Washington columnist that he would prefer the full title of his office rather than the familiar term Veep, which was, he said, "a title of affection given to a fine man—Barkley—and like the uniform numerals which are retired with great football players, I think the nickname should go with the man."
Blonde Patricia McCormick, 23, who left Texas Western College two years ago determined to master the rugged art of bullfighting, survived her first "baptism of blood." The pert torera, who made her professional debut in Juárez last year and has faced some 20 bulls in small rings, was practicing passes with a small but sharp-horned cow on a ranch near Aguascalientes. Mexico. In the middle of a pass, Pat snapped her cape too quickly. The cow charged and gored her in the right thigh. In the hospital, where doctors treated a ten-inch gash, Pat said: "I can't wait to get out of here and fight bulls again."