"Names make news." Last week the following names made the following news:

As Harvard's trophy-filled Soldier's Field locker building was burning down, among the students who rushed to help was Allan Hoover, the President's youngest. After the fire was out, Clarence Douglas Dillon, next year's football manager, son of Clarence Dillon (Dillon, Read & Co.), phoned his father in New York, got him to promise $500,000 for a new building.

Garet Garrett, 51, able onetime journalist, prolific writer on finance, politics, economics, was dining in a Manhattan restaurant when a trio of gunmen entered. Mr. Garrett, small, confronted one of them, was shot three times (chest, shoulder, hip). At a detective, who queried him at the hospital about the possibly private motive for the shooting, Mr. Garrett is said to have shied a small porcelain cuspidor.

Louis Bromfield, novelist (The Green Bay Tree, Pulitzer Prize-winning Early Autumn), with his wife, two children, maid and a visiting Englishman, went to California to write for the audible cinema. Said he: "There is intelligence and talent gathering in Hollywood as it never gathered there before. It is most hopeful, most interesting. . . . I am fed up with Europe. It gives me a stomachache. I got tired of it, bored with it."

Curtis Arnoux Peters ("Peter Arno"), famed caricaturist for The New Yorker (weekly smartchart), quarreled bitterly in the middle of the night with his wife Lois Long ("lipstick"), colyumist for The New Yorker ("tables for two"). They told the police that a deep cut in his cheek was a slip-of-the-razor, not caused by her hurling a glass powder-box at him. Calming down, they decided to separate for one year.

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