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

Charlie Chaplin and his family had hardly sailed for England aboard the Queen Elizabeth when the 63-year-old silent-movie comedian got some bombshell news. U.S. Attorney General James McGranery announced that Chaplin, who has remained a British subject while living and working in the U.S. for 40 years, would be picked up by Immigration officials on his return and held for a hearing to determine if he is readmissible. The Justice Department refused to say on what grounds it would question Chaplin's right to re-enter the country (said one official: "That might prejudice our case"). But the press speculated on some reasons: the McCarran Act bars aliens from entering the U.S. on grounds of morals, or for membership or affiliation with Communist organizations. Chaplin has been cited as a sponsor for some Communist-front groups, and the noisy Chaplin-Joan Berry paternity suit, decided against the comedian (TIME, April 30,1945), might leave him open to a charge of "moral turpitude."

In Hollywood, Columnist Hedda Hopper cried: "Hundreds of people . . . maybe thousands . . . all those wonderful people we call little people . . . were pleased" with the news. "No one can deny," wrote Hedda, that Chaplin "is a good actor. He is. But that doesn't give him the right to go against our customs, to abhor everything we stand for, to throw our hospitality back in our faces ... I abhor what he stands for ... 'Good riddance to bad company.' "

In England, the press was warmly hospitable to Chaplin. The Observer said: "Should American authorities really intend to revoke his permit . . . because of random imputations and not on the basis of judicial verdict, they would be acting . . . rather shabbily and with little sense of logic ... If the great comedian wishes to stay here in the country whose citizenship he has so pertinaciously retained, he will be less harassed and very welcome."

On the Queen Elizabeth, Chaplin wore the sadly wistful expression that has made him famous. "I applied for a re-entry permit which I was given in good faith and which I accepted in good faith," he said. "Therefore I assume that the United States Government will recognize its validity."

The National Research Council announced that it has renewed its annual grant of $40,000 to Indiana University's Professor Dr. Alfred Kinsey and his Institute for Sex Research. Zoologist Kinsey is now completing his study of the sexual habits of the human female.

Pope Pius XII, a bit under the weather with a slight fever and a mild cold, canceled all audiences for the remainder of the week. But by week's end His Holiness felt well enough to appear at a window overlooking the inner courtyard of the papal summer residence at Castel Gandolfo to give his blessings to a crowd of 300 pilgrims.

The Internal Revenue Bureau, which has been making public some of its "compromises" with dilatory taxpayers, confessed that it had been a bad judge of talent--so bad that it cost the U.S. $90,000. In 1937, Actress Ethel Barrymore owed $98,660.38 in back taxes, but got the bureau to accept $7,500. Reasoned the tax collector: Ethel was "broke," had "no future on the stage ... It is generally known that her popularity has been on the decline for the past several years. At the present time there is practically no demand for her services." Despite this theatrical judgment, Ethel again caught the limelight, made a smash hit on Broadway in The Corn Is Green and in Hollywood with None But the Lonely Heart, The Spiral Staircase and Just for You. Since the compromise, she has made 18 pictures, earned well over $1,000,000.

At a solemn ceremony in Suresnes, France, SHAPE Chief Matthew B. Ridgway & wife, General George C. Marshall and France's Marshal Alphonse-Pierre Juin joined in the dedication of two new wings on the memorial chapel in the American Military Cemetery, where U.S. dead of both world wars are buried. Marshall, as chairman of the American Battle Monuments Commission, delivered the main address.

In Hollywood, Mary Pickford, 59, sadly announced that she has withdrawn from a projected movie--her first in 20 years. "Since the decision not to make Circle of Fire in Technicolor," she wrote Producer Stanley Kramer, "I have been very unhappy and very much disturbed. I do feel that after so long an absence from the screen, my return should not be in black & white."

Visiting Spain on business, Henry Ford paused long enough in Madrid to take a capework lesson from Matador Luis Miguel Dominguin. but politely declined an invitation to get into the bullring with the real thing. Said Ford: "Sorry . . . All my training and upbringing have not prepared me for this kind of fun."

Tallulah Bankhead published a 326-page autobiography (Tallulah; Harper; $3.95), which began with a testy denial: "Despite all you may have heard to the contrary, I have never had a ride in a patrol wagon." From then on, most of the book is a series of crisp confessions which fascinated at least one early reader. The publishers eagerly snatched at a warm blurb from Harry S. Truman: "I haven't been able to put it down. Undoubtedly the most interesting book I've had in my hands since I have been President of the United States."

Oldtime Comedian Buster Keaton gave photographers a chance to catch him in a traditionally morose pose before leaving on the United States for a European business trip. Two pieces of business: the London premiere of Charlie Chaplin's Limelight (see above), in which Keaton appears; a three-week stint with a Paris circus.

"For the first time, and in dramatic detail," Hearst's New York Journal-American began running "the remarkable story of how 'the richest girl in the world,' Doris Duke, found peace of mind" as a disciple of Hindu Yogi Rao, "who looks like Rasputin and talks like a Hindu Billy Graham." At 40, reported Feature Writer Omar Garrison, Doris is a changed woman. Garrison saw "simple joy radiate from her smile as she washed dishes at the sink of [the yogi's] shabby bungalow apartment in Hollywood . . . How did the 63-year-old barefoot ascetic give 'the world's richest girl' something she had been unable to buy with a fortune of more than $100,000,000?" It was all due to yoga: "You must start," said Yogi Rao, "with your body . . . Learn to eat properly, breathe properly, and to have correct posture." To demonstrate, he "drank a glass of water, then calmly chewed up the tumbler and swallowed it. 'I'm the only living person who knows what potassium cyanide or fuming nitric acid tastes like,' he declared. 'The others are dead.' Doris Duke . . . was impressed . . ."

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