SHORT TAKES : Kennedy Center Chair Reported

WASHINGTON — A search committee today is expected to recommend that James D. Wolfensohn, chairman of Carnegie Hall in New York City, be named chairman of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, a spokeswoman says.

Ralph P. Davidson, the Kennedy Center’s current chairman and president, asked that his contract not be renewed when it expires in February, 1991. While Wolfensohn, 56, is to be named chairman, he will not also hold the post of president, The Washington Post said in today’s editions.