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

The U.S. Armory and Arsenal at Springfield, Mass, retired an old civil service employee who had spent the past 34 years there working on rifles. At a testimonial dinner, shy, Canadian-born John C. Garand, 65, inventor of the Army's basic M-1 (Garand) rifle, was given, as a farewell trophy, the millionth M-1 which was made during World War II (over 4,000,000 have been made for the Army). Said Gunsmith Garand, looking at his famous product: "I've never felt bad about designing the rifle even though its only real use is in war. If it were used by an aggressor nation, then I'd be sorry."

John D. Rockefeller Jr. and his family donated $6,000,000 to be spent "as soon as possible" in building a large guest lodge and enough cottages to house 5,000 tourists on Jackson Lake, Wyoming, in Grand Teton National Park. The gift completes a conservation project which Rockefeller started 25 years ago, when he began quietly buying land in the Jackson Hole area. In 1949 he turned over to the Government 35,000 acres, which became part of the national park.

In Portland, Ore. for a concert, Pianist Artur Rubinstein, 64, apologized to reporters for being hoarse from laryngitis, massaged his throat and rasped out some family news. Said he: "We're expecting a new baby, our fifth, in November. We are very thrilled by that."

Songstress Jane Pickens arrived at a Denver television studio to begin a telethon appeal for donations to the National Cerebral Palsy Fund. After 14 hours on the air, with the fund $158,000 richer, Singer Pickens flew back to Manhattan for her regular TV show. Then she headed west again to Phoenix, where she raised another $60,000. bringing her personal fund-raising campaign in the past year to a total of $1,057,000.

The 167th annual dinner of London's Royal Academy of Arts heard the personal art credo of Sir Winston Churchill who appeared in public for the first time wearing his blue sash and silver badge of the Order of the Garter. Said Sir Winston:

"Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse. Innovation, of course, involves experiment. Experiment may not always be fruitful." Concluded Churchill the painter: "In art I have found myself on the side of the disciplinarians." When the Academy's exhibition opened next day, viewers had a chance to see some examples of Churchillian discipline. He had five canvases hanging, making a total of 30 of his pictures the Academy has shown since 1947.

In Manhattan, Hermitage House publishers sued Actress Ethel Barrymore and Harper & Bros, publishers for $125,000 each. The charge: Miss Barrymore had signed a contract in 1947 to write her memoirs for Hermitage House, but last January agreed to let Harper have her story. The defense: Miss Barrymore had been badgered with "unconscionable . . . demands" to deliver her work in a hurry, and that voided the contract.

In Washington, the Senate Caucus Room served a gayer than usual purpose: the annual luncheon given Mamie Eisenhower by wives of members of the Senate. Official hostess was Patricia Nixon, wife of the Vice President, who spent the morning at Red Cross work and arrived without time to change her uniform. Among the other guests of honor: Welfare Secretary Oveta Gulp Hobby and wives of Cabinet members. Among the luncheon specialties: Georgia peach pickles, brought by Mrs. Walter George; South Carolina pecans donated by Mrs. Olin Johnston; some native Michigan jelly from the kitchen of Mrs. Charles Potter.

Commodore Harry Manning, 56, who captained the U.S.S. United States on her maiden voyage to capture the Atlantic speed records, announced that he was retiring after 40 years of sea life. His plans: to write, lecture and act as a maritime consultant.

Old V.M.I. Alumnus George C. Marshall, along with Secretary of the Army Robert Ten Broeck Stevens and representatives from 48 universities and colleges, went to Lexington, Va. to see Virginia Military Institute swear in its eighth president. The new head: Major General William H. Milton Jr., 53, V.M.I, graduate and former General Electric engineer who directed the Hanford plutonium plant in Washington and the Knolls atomic power plant in Schenectady.

Lieut. Franciszek Jarecki, 21, the Polish air force pilot who recently flew a Russian MIG-15 jet fighter to Denmark (thereby giving Western experts their first chance to examine such a plane intact), landed in a transatlantic commercial air liner at New York's Idlewild airport with a two months' visitor's visa and a sched ule of talks to Polish-American groups across the country. Later he would like to apply for naturalization, join the U.S. Air Force and try his skill in Korea.

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