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

Despite antigambling sentiment in English parishes, the former Prince of Wales and later Edward VIII liked to try his chance at baccarat or roulette in Europe's public casinos. Last week in Monte Carlo's swank International Sporting Club the Duke of Windsor laid his stakes as a modest punter at baccarat, never cried "Banco!" Other punters, with traditional gambler superstitition. rushed to stake on chances opposite to those picked by Edward, figuring "Lucky at love, unlucky at cards." They lost heavily to the bank, from which His Royal Highness won a total for the evening of $40. Next day he paid $20,000 for a flower-shaped emerald pin, surrounded by diamonds, picked out for the Duchess of Windsor who does not gamble.

The palatial 3O4-ft. steam yacht Liberty was built in 1908 by the late eccentric Publisher Joseph Pulitzer, who was such a slave-driver that his retinue of male secretaries called their floating home the Liberty, Ha Ha. The late Courtenay Charles Evan Morgan Viscount Tredegar, wealthy coal man, bought the yacht from Pulitzer, made it a navigating hospital. The third owner, the late Fanny Lucy Radmall Lady Houston, wife of the Houston shiplines director, hung a huge electric sign, DOWN WITH MACDONALD THE TRAITOR, in the rigging, sailed the English coast. Last week the old Liberty was sold for scrap, towed to Newport, Monmouthshire to be dismantled.

Bennington College's beret-wearing President Robert Devore Leigh, a quiet but prolific speechmaker, entered a banquet hall in Manhattan's Pennsylvania Hotel by way of an anteroom full of books, charts, photographs, machines--all concerned with the improvement of voice technique; sat down to eat with 500 members of the earnestly convening National Association of Speech Teachers; then said to them: "I doubt whether more than ten persons can get together and do much in advancing ideas or thought. ... I wonder if the teachers of speech might not be more helpful to humanity if they taught silence."

The U. S. State Department almost certainly established the identity of Mr. & Mrs. Donald L, Robinson, who recently disappeared in Moscow (TIME, Dec. 27), as a Mr. & Mrs. Adolph Arnold Rubens; further clarified the case by disclosing that New York's luckless County Clerk Albert Marinelli, who resigned from office month ago in the face of charges that members of his staff were ex-convicts, had issued the passports as a special kindness to a Mr. A, who had forwarded the applications as a political favor to a Mr. B, who obliged a Mr. C who had wanted to help his old crony Mr. D. At week's end, Mr. D was embarrassing his friends' friend, Albert Marinelli. by remaining in hiding.

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