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

Speaking in academic cap & gown to students of Washington's Peirce School, U. S. Senate Majority Leader Alben W. Barkley declared the U. S. has "more representation and more taxation than the forefathers ever dreamed of."

Early one evening a lean, white-haired man of great dignity was led by three bowing captains to a table in Manhattan's noisy Cotton Club. He watched Tap-Dancer Bill Robinson perform, listened with interest to the music of Cab Galloway. As he left, Maestro Arturo Toscanini said he had had a fine time.

On his $23,000 lecture tour (TIME, Dec. 27), gangling Nobel Prizewinner Sinclair ("Red") Lewis told newsmen that nothing in the world as he finds it annoys him. Asked one reporter: "Does the poverty in the world annoy you, Mr. Lewis?" Annoyed, Author Lewis jumped up, flared: "Don't you try to make a damn fool out of me, young man. God did that already, and you don't need to try to help Him."

At the January dinner of the exclusive New York Gourmet Society, during a silence after applause, Emily Post (Etiquette) spilled a spoonful of Swedish lingonberries on the tablecloth. Calmly she said: "People generally think I'm made of tin, a sort of mechanical robot, but it's not so."

Giant Negro Singer Paul Robeson drove from France to Barcelona, Spain. Purpose of his visit: to go to the front lines, where a huge loudspeaker will throw his voice, during a lull in fighting, to Leftist and Rightist alike.

London's Windsorite Octavians (TIME, Oct. 4) dined & wined 150 strong on the second anniversary of the Duke of Windsor's accession as Edward VIII. Said the round-faced Rev. Robert Anderson Jardine, who married the Duke and Mrs. Simpson: "I am convinced in my heart that if ever there was a woman who could have sat on the throne of England. . . ." The ecstatic listeners here drowned his speech with cries of "Hear, hear!" "Thank you, Sir!"

Three minutes past the midnight when his term as New Jersey's Governor ended, Harold G. Hoffman stepped from his office, shouted at an astonished janitor: "I want those overhead lights out as soon as possible. I am a taxpayer."

As Franklin D. Roosevelt prepared to enroll with Surgeon General Thomas Parran of the U. S. Public Health Service as Founder No. 1 of his National Foundation to Combat Infantile Paralysis (enlistment fee: $1), he found he had no money, was obliged to borrow from Press Secretary Stephen Early.

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