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

Star witness in the seventh week of the treason trial of former Sergeant John David Provoo (TIME, Nov. 24) was 69-year-old General Jonathan M. Wainwright, called as witness for the defense. To the lawyer who was forced to shout his questions, Wainwright apologized and explained that he was nearly deaf as a result of shell bursts during the siege of Corregidor. After testifying that he had not known Provoo, nor had he received reports that the man had given aid & comfort to the enemy, the general gave the Manhattan jury a moving, 90-minute account of the defense and surrender of the Rock, and his life in Jap prison camps, which had left him bent and frail.

In Rome, while waiting near the Chamber of Deputies to pick up Italy's Communist boss, Palmiro Togliatti, Chauffeur Reclus Monari suddenly became the richest Communist chauffeur in the country. He was named winner of a 54 million lire ($86,400) football pool. Said Monari: "I'll certainly give several millions to the party and a handsome gift to Comrade Togliatti."

The sick list included: King Tribhubana of Nepal, who flew to New Delhi for a consultation with his doctors; 17-year-old King Hussein of Jordan, who was excused from his military classes at Sandhurst to have a sinus operation in London; Finland's President Juho Paasikivi, 82, ordered by his doctors to take a week's rest when they decided he was working too hard; and Prince Bernhard of The Netherlands, ordered to forgo two of his favorite sports, skiing and horse jumping, because of a weak vertebra, the result of an old auto accident.

The will of the late C.I.O. President Rhilip Murray, filed for probate in Pittsburgh, showed an estate of $20,000 bequeathed to his wife.

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For his "outstanding service in behalf of youth," the Big Brothers of America, Inc. picked California's Governor Earl Warren for Big Brother of 1953.

After the October news that Britain had exploded her first atom bomb in the barren wastes of the Monte Bello Islands north of Australia, a proud Prime Minister declared that William George Penney, the physicist who directed the project, would be knighted as a reward. Last week, at Buckingham Palace, without waiting to include him in the usual honors list, Queen Elizabeth II made Penney a Knight Commander of the British Empire.

After singing for her lunch at a meeting of the Women's National Press Club in Washington, Mary Martin learned that Governor Allan Shivers had promoted her from her South Pacific rank of Ensign Nellie Forbush to Admiral in the Texas Navy, thereby giving her equal Lone Star flag rank with Admirals Dwight Eisenhower (who recently also accepted the title of honorary president of the Camp Fire Girls) and onetime Chief of Naval Operations Chester Nimitz.

In Tokyo, on a concert tour, Metropolitan Opera Soprano Helen Traubel announced that she would detour to Korea to sing Christmas carols to the troops.

Margaret Sanger, 60-year-old founder of the Planned Parenthood movement, returned to Manhattan highly pleased with the results of a series of conferences in Japan and India. Said she: "People are more ready for birth-control methods than we are able to provide for them. Education is no longer the problem."

Adlai Stevenson was invited to become honorary president of the National Association of Gagwriters. His reply: "It is with the utmost disappointment that I feel obliged to decline your engaging and flattering invitation . . . That I could even have been considered for this distinction lifts my weary heart."

In Manhattan, the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York held its Key Award ceremony to honor outstanding women in their chosen professions. Gold keys went to: Mrs. Ralph Bunche (human relations and education); Fleur Cowles (publishing): Mary Margaret McBride (radio); Anita Colby (industry); Lilli Palmer (theater); Arlene Francis (television).

Off to Paris, and his last NATO conference as Secretary of State, Dean Acheson told reporters in Washington that after Jan. 20 he is going to take a long vacation with his wife in the West Indies. After that, "I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe holding public office."

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