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 Peron. So will be all the streets and plazas throughout the country which hitherto had borne the name of onetime President Bartolome 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 Peron room of Eva Peron school of Eva Peron 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.

In Laredo, Texas, new love and disillusion met by chance over a cup of coffee at a drugstore counter. Nancy Oakes, whose former husband was acquitted of murdering her millionaire father in the Bahamas, was on her way to Mexico City with plans to marry Ernst Lyssard Hoyn-ingen Huene, a titled German student from Oberammergau. Next to her sat Anita Roddy-Eden, who was awarded a divorce and a $50,000 settlement after living with Tommy Manville for twelve days as his ninth wife. Said Nancy: "May I have the sugar?" Answered Anita: "Certainly." Meanwhile, Tommy Manville had picked out wife No. 10: 24-year-old, blonde Corrine Daly from Brooklyn, who made the grade by trying to sell him her sailboat.

In a Miami court, 30 minutes of legal business dissolved the six-year marriage of Richard J. Reynolds, 46-year-old tobacco heir, and his flame-haired wife, Marianne O'Brien. Reynolds, who gave his first wife a $3,000,000 settlement, settled this time for $2,000,000, which included $750,000 (tax free) for Marianne; $10,000 a year for their two sons. The next day, on a private island off Georgia, Reynolds took his third wife, the former Mrs. Muriel Greenough of Toronto, a World War II war correspondent. Reynolds announced that they would fly to London early next month for the launching of his newest yacht and would start on a round-the-world honeymoon cruise.

Barbara Mutton and her 16-year-old son Lance Haugwitz-Reventlow, who suffers from asthma and has been attending school in Arizona, flew to Honolulu for a vacation. At the airport they met a familiar barrier: reporters chasing down a rumor. Lance, whose titled Danish father still has his custody half the year, stood patiently on the sidelines to watch his experienced mother in action as the reporters closed in. Was she going to take her old friend, British-born Socialite David Pleydell-Bouverie, as her fifth husband? Said Barbara: "Good heavens, must I always be marrying? ... I read in the papers that I am marrying the most extraordinary people."

In Portland, fresh from a fishing trip along Oregon's McKenzie and Rogue Rivers, Herbert Hoover sat down to a 78th-birthday party with some 600 fellow engineers who hailed him as "the engineer of the century." Suntanned and beaming, the ex-President replied, "I am always embarrassed by such introductions. They are like cologne water. The fragrance is wonderful, but you mustn't take them internally."

On a downtown street in Rochester, N.Y., word spread that Dwight Eisenhower was getting a shave in a nearby barbershop. A crowd gathered to gape, while the customer in the chair chuckled and even posed for a picture. His name: Leo A. Mathews, a San Francisco businessman who is a remarkable lookalike. Said Mathews: "This has been going on for ten years, and I enjoy it." He has met Mrs. Eisenhower, but never the general.

Among the ailing and convalescing: Madame Chiang Kai-shek flew from her temporary home in Formosa to Honolulu for treatment of neurodermatitis, a nervous condition which causes severe itching. "Very tired and weak," she retired to the home of her sister Mme. H. H. Kung until hospital accommodations could be arranged. The Duke of Windsor was recovering in Montecatini, Italy, from a "slight attack of indigestion" diagnosed by his doctor as the result of "too many invitations in this heat." He was ordered to limit his drinking to milk (with occasional mineral-water chasers) and his eating to meats and vegetables (thoroughly boiled) and stewed fruit. Writer Betty (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn) Smith was in a hospital nursing 37 stitches in her face after an auto crash near Louisburg, N.C. Old New Dealer Paul Porter, now director of economic affairs for the MSA office in Paris, was reported "fine" after an emergency appendectomy which broke up a dinner party. Slant-eyed Actress Veronica Lake had to cancel a summer-theater engagement in Framingham, Mass. because of a slight virus infection. Mrs. Johnnie Ray, bride of the cry-baby singer, left her husband on tour and went to a Buffalo hospital for a pneumonia cure. Publisher William Randolph Hearst Jr. was nursing a "moderate concussion" and a wrenched right shoulder after taking a header from his horse on a San Simeon bridle path. German Conductor Wilhelm Furtwaengler was forced to cancel the rest of his Salzburg Music Festival appearances after a bout of pneumonia. Hollywood's talking mule Francis was nursing bruised legs after her trailer jackknifed in traffic in Bridgeport, Conn.

Prince Gholam Reza Pahlevi, 20-year-old brother of the Shah of Iran and a first lieutenant in the armored section of the Iranian army, arrived in Manhattan bound for Fort Knox, Ky. and a 14-week course in U.S. armored tactics.

Yale University announced that its head football coach, 300-lb. former All American Guard Herman Hickman had resigned. With a record of 16 victories, 17 losses and two ties in the past four years of his Yale coaching career, Hickman's contract had nine years to run. His next job: a TV program sponsored by the General Cigar Company.

At Stateville prison in Joliet, Ill., the warden said that Inmate Nathan Leopold, now a bald 48, who teamed with Richard Loeb in the brutal 1924 "thrill murder" of 14-year-old Bobby Franks, has been a "very good" prisoner. He works as an X-ray technician in the prison hospital. Through the prison school and correspondence courses, he has learned "about 25 languages." Next New Year's Day he will be eligible for parole. His plans? Said the warden: "I don't think he knows himself what he'd do if he ever gets out."

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