Names make news. Last week these names made this news:
In Hollywood, where tenth wedding anniversaries are almost as rare as 100th birthdays, newsmen converged on Cinemactor Humphrey (Beat the Demi) Bogart, 55, and his bodkin-tongued wife, Cineminx Lauren (How to Marry a Millionaire) Bacall, 30, asked them in bewildered tones how they had survived a decade of cinematrimony. Chorused the Bogarts blissfully: "We are oldfashioned. We believe in double beds." Explained Bogey in laconic tones: "It's pretty hard to sulk over something if you share the same bed." Philosopher Bogart, no great profile, gave Hollywood's fast-mating sirens the back of his hand: "Most of these babes out here don't deserve to be married for five minutes. When they get married they don't really mean it. They marry some guy because he's pretty."
A hero as a German U-boat skipper in World War I and a martyr as a Nazi prisoner in World War II, West Germany's pugnacious Pastor Martin Niemöller, neutralist foe of his country's rearmament, began a skirmish with his own Evangelical Lutheran Church. Charged last month with neglecting the spiritual duties of the church's Foreign Bureau, run by him, Niemöller wrote a bitter letter of resignation to famed Bishop Otto Dibelius, tossed in a threat that unless the charges are withdrawn, "I will hold the time ripe to expose the insupportable intrigues that have taken place within the church."
After speaking in Williamsport, Pa. Indiana's haggis-faced Republican Representative Charles A. Halleck, House minority leader, had some time on his hands, hustled off to a nearby trout stream. Casting briefly, he soon hooked and netted a 12-in. specimen, later beamed upon it as if it were at least a 12-ft. marlin.
Italy's Cinemactress Gina (Bread, Love and Dreams) Lollobrigida was embroiled as usual in a passel of law suits.* Focal point of the contests was International News Service and its Rome Bureau Chief Mike Chinigo. After Chinigo distributed I.N.S. photos of Gina cavorting in cancan dresses for a new movie, Italian magazine readers delightedly noted that the flash bulbs used in making the pictures had penetrated her lingerie. Litigious Gina flew into a mercurial tizzy and vainly tried to get the negatives back; her irate husband, Mirko Skofic, dropped into Chinigo's office for a heated, futile chat. Resuits: Chinigo slapped two suits on Skofic (for violation of domicile and uttering in timidating threats); Gina sportingly sued Chinigo on three counts (abuse of her image, defamation of character, insults via telephone). Meanwhile, with her lawyer fattening on fees, Gina took a court recess last week to get a ballet lesson at her Rome villa.
One of the topflight U.S. old soldiers who has all but faded from public view in military retirement, General of the Army George Catlett Marshall, 74, sorrowfully came back into sight for a little while.
Occasion: the funeral, at Arlington National Cemetery, of one of Marshall's predecessors as Army Chief of Staff, General Charles P. Summerall, who died last fortnight at 88.