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

Still armpit-deep in a sea of matrimonial troubles, paunchy Producer Roberto Rossellini ducked under a wave sloshed from another quarter: bankruptcy proceedings over an allegedly unpaid loan of $34,768. Meanwhile, his radiantly blonde partner on a Stromboli idyl nine seething years ago, twice-married Cinemactress Ingrid Bergman, 42, confirmed that she would make another try at happiness for two--"as soon as it's legally possible." If an annulment decree from Roberto is granted, she will wed her off-camera companion of more recent days, Swedish Impresario Lars Schmidt. Open-armed for his new daughter was Lars's papa, a retired army major: "Ingrid made a most charming impression upon my wife and me." But so, he added, did Lars's first bride: "That was a very charming lady too."

In the Truman Administration, a trusty news source for hardworking, Fair-Dealing Columnist Doris Fleeson, fiftyish, was Navy Secretary Dan A. Kimball. At long last on the asking side of a question, California Businessman (Aerojet-General Corp.) Kimball, 62, earned the right answer, last week provided Newshen Fleeson, ex-wife of the New York Daily News's Washington Columnist John O'Donnell, with a homegrown item: she and Dan, whose first marriage was dissolved last year, will be married next month at the home of Manhattan friends.

His jacket clogged with enough medals for a NATO division, Wagnerian-size Tenor Lauritz Melchior chatted with Denmark's King Frederik IX at a celebration in Copenhagen of the Royal Guard's 300th anniversary. A guardsman himself in his nimble youth, Melchior crossed the Atlantic for a month's vacation in the old country with a 40-man delegation of Danish-American Guard grads, sang out loud and clear at the parade and at a festive veterans' dinner in the Tivoli Gardens.

After a ho-hum year on an alien job--inspecting tropical construction work--Colonel John Nickerson, court-martialed for leaking Army rocket secrets to newsmen (TIME, July 8, 1957) heard the good news: restoration of his military command functions, assignment to a post right down his alley, as ordnance officer of the Caribbean Command with headquarters in the Panama Canal Zone.

Previewing a style that might catch on for such sports as spelunking or Gaelic football for girls, Queen Elizabeth II donned black boots, bright white helmet and floppy boiler suit for a visit to the Rothes Colliery in Fife. As Britain's first pit-hopping Queen, Her Majesty drew gushes for the garb from the watchful press, even earned a wee handclap from fussy Royal Couturier Norman Hartnell: "Being English, of course she looks marvelous in all sports clothes."

For all the world like a banker doing his civic duty, Belgium's ex-King Leopold III, who was forced by Socialist pressure to abdicate seven years ago, nobly accepted tutoring in the use of an American-style voting machine at the Brussels Fair from U.S. Pavilion Guide Beverly Ann Bailey. After the lesson, Leopold thoughtfully selected Lincoln as favorite statesman, Edgar Allan Poe as favorite author, Louis Armstrong as favorite musician. Poll completed, he issued a safe royal comment: "Very interesting."

Passing up his usual after-lunch snooze, Cinemogul Sam Goldwyn, 75, stopped for a fond look at his Sound Stage 8, rigged up as Catfish Row for Sam's latest and hoped-for greatest, a $6,000,000 production of Porgy and Bess. He never saw it again. A few hours before stage crew and cast (including Sammy Davis Jr. and Pearl Bailey) arrived for the day, a fire (origin unknown) destroyed the mammoth (80,000 sq. ft.) set--and with it costumes, cameras, recording and lighting equipment. As offers of help poured in, Goldwyn calmly announced: "I am so thankful that no one has been hurt that the loss [$2,000,000] does not bother me so much. I've had plenty of trouble, but I'm going to make Porgy and Bess if it's the last thing I ever do."

Latest assignment given free-spending ($600,000 last year) Lieut. General Rafael Trujillo Jr.: to decide whether the Dominican Republic should stop pocketing U.S. military aid (coincidentally, about $600,000 this year) because a few unsympathetic Congressmen questioned the private lend-lease program he set for deserving Hollywood natives during his days as a student at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff School.

Almost 19 years after he put up his shingle as a young lawyer in South St. Paul. Harold Stassen, 51, sometime (1939-45) Governor of Minnesota, tireless aspirant for the presidency of the U.S., president of the University of Pennsylvania (1948-53). defeated candidate (1958) for Pennsylvania's G.O.P. gubernatorial nomination, found himself a quiet office on Philadelphia's South Broad Street, went back into the practice of law.

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