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

In London, Enid Margaret Cripps, 32, youngest daughter of the late Sir Stafford Cripps, austerity Chancellor of the Exchequer, joined a slight, spectacled law student for an announcement to the press: they were going to be married in July. He was Joseph Manuel Appiah, thirtyish, son of an African tribal leader and personal representative in Britain of Gold Coast Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah. They had met at a party in London two years ago. As for the problems of an interracial marriage, they had the approval of both families and expected no social difficulties on the Gold Coast, where they will live. Did they plan to raise a family, reporters asked. "Well, if possible . . ." said Peggy Cripps. "Oh, certainly we will," Appiah broke in. "In my country a family is very important."

The Cairo rumor mill was spluttering overtime with word that Jordan's handsome King Hussein, 18, had finally decided to marry: 1) one of the 120-odd daughters of Saudi Arabia's King Ibn Saud, or 2) a daughter of Saudi Arabia's Prince Feisal, or 3) Egyptian Princess Dina Abdul Hamid.

In Chile, Helen Keller, 72, on a two-month Latin American lecture tour, was marooned for three days in the resort city of Chillan by a storm which took ten lives. A Chilean air-force plane, ordered to the scene by President Carlos Ibanez, came to the rescue.

Harry Truman, dapper in a new grey suit and two-tone sport shoes, marched at the head of the Independence, Mo., Memorial Day parade and paid a tribute to the men who "have given their lives to make it possible for the Republic to exist." He confirmed reports that he is considering a trip to Washington late this month. He did not expect to drop in for a chat with President Eisenhower, Truman said. "I'm not planning to see anybody I don't want to see."

Since he escaped trial in 1949 with eleven other Communist Party bosses (all convicted) because two court-appointed doctors said his heart was too weak to stand the courtroom ordeal, Party Chairman William Zebulon Foster, the twelfth and biggest U.S. Communist, has been busy writing and speechmaking. His labors have taken him on two strenuous cross-country trips. Last week, after doctors re-examined him and found that his cardiovascular condition was no better, Foster, now 72, won another continuance, thus removing all likelihood that he will ever stand trial.

Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., 50, U.S. Representative at the United Nations and father of two (George, 25, and Henry, 22), was named "Father of the Year" by the National Father's Day (June 21) Committee. Other fathers picked as the best family men in their fields: Lieut. General James H. Doolittle ("Humanitarian Father"), Alben W. Berkley (radio), Rocky Marciano (sports), Melvyn Douglas (stage), Ezio Pinza (music), Danny Thomas (cinema), John Daly (TV). Cited as "Father's Favorite Female": Beatrice Lillie.

Oldtime Cinema Soprano Jeanette (Naughty Marietta) MacDonald, after finishing up the concert season with recitals in some of the tonier Las Vegas gambling casinos, received an honorary Mus.D. degree from New York's Ithaca College for her "many contributions to the field of music."

Although British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden has shown "excellent progress" in recent weeks, his doctors announced that another gall-bladder operation has "become imperative." With Mrs. Eden (the former Clarissa Churchill) at his side, he will be flown to Boston this week for an operation by Dr. Richard Cattell--his third since he took down with a chill on March 30.

Associated Press Correspondent William Oatis, calling off plans for a long, freedom-breathing holiday trip, entered a sanatorium near Manhattan for treatment of tuberculosis, which he contracted during his two-year imprisonment in Czechoslovakia.

Boston's Watch & Ward Society, longtime guardian of local morals, threw a big birthday party for itself in old Park Street Church after 75 busy years of rescuing fallen women, arranging for the banning of dirty books, and--its more recent concern--keeping police posted on gamblers and bookmakers. New Hampshire Republican Senator Charles Tobey, in fine oratorical voice, showed up to deliver a fiery speech against sin.

Party-Throwing Elsa Maxwell, arriving in Europe for another summer's social whirl, described "the most wonderful present your reporter ever received." Manhattan Toy Manufacturer Lee Bland, "a dreamboat" so far as Elsa is concerned, had sent her a letter: "This will entitle Elsa Maxwell to have all the balloons and everything else my factories make, whenever she desires."

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