Names make news. Last week these names made this news:
What, asked a Manhattan newshawk, should one wear at the wedding? "Well, sir," replied the ex-President of the U.S., "you wear the best pair of pants you've got, and just so long as you're covered up you'll be in style!" Thus, with the earthy touch that is his trademark, Harry Truman set a folksy sartorial tone for the marriage of his daughter Margaret to the New York Times's suave Foreign Deskman E. (for Elbert) Clifton Daniel Jr., 43, a silvery-topped North Carolinian who picked up a faint British accent during six years in the Times's London bureau, developed an ulcer during a shorter (1954-55) stint in Moscow. Father-in-law-to-be Truman was "awful glad" that Cliff Daniel is a Democrat, "but anyone who's Margaret's choice is O.K. with me!" Did Prize Bachelor Daniel bring any musical talent to the musical Trumans? Grinned Margaret: "He sings very nicely—a high baritone." Added Daniel: "I now sing in the shower. Before I got my ulcer, I used to sing at parties."
Although the big news from Moscow concerned a dead Joseph Stalin (see FOREIGN NEWS), there was intelligence of another kind about a very live Premier Nikolai Bulganin,, At a party at the Danish embassy, which Nikita Khrushchev was too busy to attend, Bulganin roared toasts to every toastable cliche. At one excited peak he grabbed a martini and fervently cried: "Eisenhower opened the martini road in Geneva! We sometimes drank with him, in the intervals, in martinis to peace and friendship in the world." Feeling extremely euphoric, Bulganin then lurched over to a U.S. military attache, guffawed and grabbed his ear, droolishly whispered: "Someday we're gonna have peace!" Rough box score on the number of martinis downed in an hour and a half by roistering Nikolai Bulganin: a staggering 20.
Lawyer Franklin D, Roosevelt Jr., though never chummy with the Dominican Republic's Dictator Rafael Trujillo, came right out and registered as a foreign agent for the Caribbean nation. For representing Trujillo's legal interests and performing "such other services as required" in the U.S., Roosevelt's new law firm in Washington will get a handsome retainer of $60,000 for two years. F.D.R. Jr.'s partner is Lawyer Charles Patrick Clark, now a lobbyist for Spain's Dictator Francisco Franco, but better known for socking the nose of Columnist Drew Pearson in 1952 (Clark got off with a $25 fine).