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

The American Guild of Variety Artists slapped the name of Saudi Arabia's non-union King Saud (TIME, Jan. 28) on its "unfair list."* Saud's misdeed consisted of his commanding an Egyptian acrobatic troupe, now playing in his desert kingdom, to stay for some more performances, thus preventing the alley-oop specialists from keeping an imminent engagement in the U.S.

Appearing on Gossipist Hy Gardner's TV interview show, Super-Gossipist Robert Harrison, muckraking publisher of Confidential, disclosed that the perils of his grubby profession are so great that nobody will sell him any life insurance. Added Scandalmonger Harrison: "And neither can our editors buy life insurance." Asked if his mother knows what he does for a living, Harrison colored a trifle, replied, "No."

Former (1951-53) Secretary of the Navy Dan Kimball, 61, now a California aircraft-products maker, and his wife Dorothy, after 32 years of marriage, allowed that they have separated, but denied any divorce intentions. Explained Dorothy Kimball: "He is a man who is away from home for extended periods. This has been our problem."

Letting the rest of the world go by, Britain's ex-Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden and wife Clarissa basked on the sunny strand of New Zealand's subtropic Otehei Bay, a favorite operating base for deep-sea fishermen. Eden, still bedded periodically by his gall-bladder ailment, left Britain in mid-January.

Onetime Middleweight Boxing Champion Jake LaMotta, 34, now a Miami saloonkeeper, drew a six-month jail stretch and a $500 fine on raps of helping a 14-year-old vice doll hustle in his bar and running his joint for a lewd purpose.

A royal visitor in Saudi Arabia, Iran's handsome Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi donned a seamless broadcloth robe, joined other pilgrims in a trek to Mecca, Islam's holiest city.

On the last lap of a strenuous 17-nation serenade through Asia, Metropolitan Opera Soprano Eleanor Steber put into Hong Kong, allowed: "You can now call me a primitive donna!" In her travels about the Orient, West Virginia-born Singer Steber, 40, a recent divorceee, had also observed some exotic marriage customs, including the blissful servitude of Oriental wives. Said she: "I now see why American women lose their husbands. The Asians sure know how to hold on to theirs. Marriage in the United States today is a highly unsatisfactory business, and American women are to blame!"

The Iron Curtain was successfully scaled by the U.S.'s Olympic Hammer-Throw Champion Harold Connolly, 25, who, having shaken free of Red tape, planned this week to marry his true love, Czechoslovakia's Olympic Discus-Throw Champion Olga Filcotova, 24, in Prague. With famed Czech Distance Runner Emil Zatopek as best man, Roman Catholic Connolly, according to a U.S. embassy spokesman, was slated to take his Protestant bride in a civil ceremony (for the Red authorities' benefit), followed by Catholic and Protestant rites.

Cantankerous, old (87) Architectitan Frank Lloyd Wright was even angrier than usual. As a young Turk of his profession a half century ago, he had designed a house in Chicago -- a slab-eaved structure known as Robie House -- and now its present owner, the Chicago Theological Seminary, wants to tear it down to make room for a new dormitory.

Wright's opinion of his creation: "The cornerstone of what we call modern architecture." Last week peppery Architect Wright, flat-hatted and swinging a cane, inspected his mellowing masterpiece. His appraisal: "I find it in remarkably good condition. That it has survived the treatment it has had at the hands of its owners is a miracle. Professional religionists are the last people to recognize a thing of beauty. The destruction of a thing like this could only be done in America." At California's Edwards Air Force Base, California's Veteran Democratic Representative Claire Engle climbed shakily out of an F-102A Convair fighter, which had just hurtled him through the sky at 800 m.p.h. Catching his breath, Engle then told newshawks why he had temporarily played hooky from his less spectacular chores as chairman of the House Interior and Insular Affairs Com mittee: "Since the beginnings of the re public there have been more than 10,000 Congressmen elected, and all of them have battered at the sound barrier. I figured it was time one of them busted it!"

*Another dignitary on A.G.V.A.'s black list: New York's Democratic Congressman-Preacher Adam Clayton Powell, who employed A.G.V.A. members without pay at his Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem.

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