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

Greta Garbo had a six-foot fir sent from Sweden for her Christmas tree.

A soprano soloist's rendition of the largo ("Going Home") movement from Dvorak's New World Symphony at a private recital of the Westminster Choir School in Princeton, N. J. so moved Albert Einstein that tears flooded his eyes. Afterward he enthusiastically congratulated the wrong singer on the performance.

The Manhattan brokerage house of Weicker & Co. announced it would take a new partner on Jan. 2: Francis Warren Pershing, 24, only son of General John, J. Pershing. His qualifications: a degree from Sheffield Scientific School, 1931 (voted "most likely to succeed"); a year spent selling crushed stone for New York Trap Rock Corp.; several months "connected" with Weicker & Co.; a third share in the $819,000 estate of his late famed grandsire, the venerable Senator Francis Warren of Wyoming.

To U. S. Comptroller General John Raymond McCarl came an "emergency relief" bill for $1,406,48 for a pastel tinted shower and air conditioner which Acting Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. had installed in his office last summer when he was Farm Credit Administrator. Comptroller McCarl refused to pay for such "relief."

Weakened by a prolonged cold, John Davison Rockefeller Sr. abandoned his annual trip to his Ormond Beach, Fla. winter home.

Exclaiming "the pain is torturing, I can hardly stand it," Pennsylvania's long lean Governor Gifford Pinchot flew to Manhattan by airplane to be treated for

shingles.

In Manhattan 600 needy women & children attended a party to celebrate the second anniversary of a free food station maintained in an old church in Hell's Kitchen by Marjorie Post Hutton, wife of wealthy Edward F. Hutton (General Foods). More than 250.000 meals have been given away as a result of Hutton largesse. After dinner her guests dubbed Mrs. Hutton "Lady of the Home," and the children sang: East side, west side, All around the town! Children are made happy, Mothers smile instead of frown; Thank you, Mrs. Hutton -- Other kind friends too, May all the joys you bring to us Come bouncing back to yon! Earlier in the week Mrs. Hutton had gone to the White House, where Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt, as honorary chairman of the Women's National Council of the U. S. Flag Association, pinned a medal on her for "conspicuous service" in educational crusading against crime, made her a "Lady of the Flag." Walking through Manhattan's Central Park, Nursemaid Ruth Volz found "a string of beads," put them on. Few days later her husband noticed that they had an emerald clasp, rightly guessed that they were the $70,000 pearl necklace lost by Leona Jane Ettlinger while walking with her father, Sportsman John Daniel Hertz, founder of Yellow Cab Co. (TIME, Dec. 18). Mrs. Volz returned the pearls, collected $5,000 reward, returned to her job as nursemaid with a Park Avenue family. Exasperated because friends daily distracted Mrs. Volz with congratulatory visits and telephone calls, because newshawks and cameramen flocked about her, Mrs. Volz's employer dismissed her.

Pudgy, beer-bibbing Critic Henry Louis Mencken led an outraged charge by members of the "Saturday Night Club" upon two drunks who, loudly denouncing War, tried to crash into the club's meeting in the back room of a Baltimore restaurant. With Publisher Alfred A. Knopf, Biologist Raymond Pearl, Conductor Gustav Strube at his heels, Critic Mencken chased the rowdies to the street, collared them, had them jailed overnight. Next day he made them sign a release, crowed: "If they're Communists I don't trust them. They'll go back to Washington and claim they won a victory."

Administrators of the estate of the late Ivar Kreuger announced that, to satisfy creditors, $100,000 worth of his silverware, books, paintings, including a Bacchanalian by Peter Paul Rubens valued at $20,000, will be sold at auction in Jersey City. In Stockholm Torsten Kreuger was fined 1,500.000 kroner (about $390,000) and sentenced to one year's hard labor for his part in his brother's crockery. Administrators of the estate of Chicago's late Edith Rockefeller McCormick announced that the furnishings of her Romanesque Lake Shore Drive town house will be auctioned next month.

Included in an auction sale in Manhattan was a portrait done in 1899 by the late Swedish Anders Zorn of the late Henry Clay Pierce, St. Louis oilman, whose Brule, Wis. estate was Calvin Coolidge's summer home in 1928. Angered because he thought the portrait made him look ungainly, Oilman Pierce demanded numerous alterations, finally refused to accept or pay for the picture. Artist Zorn sued, collected $13,200. On the auction block, the portrait fetched $275.

In a Federal court in Manhattan, Socialite Gertrude Emily Gaynor Webb, daughter of New York's late Mayor Gaynor, revealed that without risking her own money, she had made a profit of $72,000 between 1919 and 1926 on a marginal stock account opened in her name by her husband's good friend, the late Harry Payne Whitney. Mr. Webb explained that "we were at Palm Beach in Bradley's place playing roulette with 50-c- chips when Mr. Whitney walked in. Addressing my wife and the girls, he said: 'That is a foolish way to try to make money. I can make some real money for you.' And I think he said he had a very good tip on Vanadium Steel. The girls said: 'Invest? What with?' He said: 'You leave it to me. I'll handle it.' Then he opened this account." Mrs. Webb carried a 1925 profit of $70,000 on the account over until 1926 when income tax rates were lower. The court rejected her appeal, ordered her to pay a $3,890 deficiency assessment.

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