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

Prince David Mdivani, the last of the ''Marrying Mdivanis," landed in Manhattan.

Rotund Bruce Bliven, editor of the liberal New Republic, told the graduating class of Long Island University: "The American press looks a great deal better to some of its critics than it did a few years ago. This is not primarily because it has improved--although that is the case--but because the press in other parts of the world has become so much worse. . . ."

Queen Alexandrine of Denmark, 58, went walking on the beach at Skagen with her two fox terriers. When a mongrel attacked the terriers, the Queen attacked the mongrel, was so severely bitten she feared she could not go to King Gustav V of Sweden's 80th birthday party.

In her latest book, Three Guineas, tall, droopy-eyed Virginia Woolf, longtime queen of London's literary Bloomsbury, ridiculed men's (meaning, of course, Englishmen's) clothes. Dress, said she, is worn by women: 1) to cover the body, 2) for beauty's sake, 3) for men's sake; by men: to advertise rank and position. Woolf on Englishmen's full dress clothes: "How many, how splendid, how extremely ornate!"

After 53 years of removing foreign objects from the stomachs and lungs of 50,000 patients (mostly children), Philadelphia's crack bronchoscopist, 72-year-old Dr. Chevalier Jackson, announced his imminent retirement, said he would spend the rest of his life lecturing to parents on leaving swallowable things about.

Winthrop Rockefeller, 26, fourth son of John D. Rockefeller Jr., was initiated last week into the Circus Saints & Sinners Club, (which is devoted to the care of retired circus performers), forced to wear costumes depicting the life of a Rockefeller from babyhood to old age. Announcer Tex O'Rourke, master of ceremonies, supplied a running commentary: "He worked hard and long in the Texas oilfields until, at the end of one week, he rose to vice president. After attaining this position, he took a year's vacation."

Inducted as new president of the club was New Jersey's former Governor Harold G. Hoffman.

From his 24-year exile in Switzerland, famed novelist playwright, pacifist Romain Rolland (Jean-Christophe, Soul Enchanted), 72, returned to his native France to end his days, "a man broken in heart, body and spirit."

Honeymooning in the U. S., Prince Louis Ferdinand von Hohenzollern and his bride, Princess Kyra, stopped off at Detroit, visited the Ford assembly line where Prince Louis once worked. Said a former fellow worker: "Hello, Louey, I see you finally got hooked."

Grinning the Prince replied: "Yes, I finally got taken down the line."

During a performance of La Boheme in London's Covent Garden, Italian Tenor Beniamino Gigli unintentionally lighted a stage stove in the garret scene. Intrepid Gigli, singing like a lark the whole time, edged into the wings, seized a bucket of water, doused the fire.

Hopping mad at recent bombings of British ships by Spanish Insurgents, Elder Statesman David Lloyd George, never willy-worded himself, assailed Great Britain's "twittering little protests," demanded "since when has the British lion been like that?'' In court for misbehavior on a public highway were: Harvard's President Emeritus A. Lawrence Lowell, who had his Massachusetts license permanently revoked after two accidents last August, sued for $35,000 damages; Peter G. Lehman, son of New York's Governor Herbert H. Lehman, who paid a $2 fine for improper parking; German-American Bundleader Fritz Kuhn, who was fined $2 for driving across a white line on Manhattan's Queensboro Bridge.

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