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

In Palo Alto, Calif., one minute's walk from Citizen Herbert Hoover's home, students of Stanford University held a debate. The question: Should alumnus Herbert Hoover be returned to the White House? Debater Will Rogers Jr.: ''No . . . Roosevelt blazes the trail." The decision: No, seven to one.

In support of a motion for a new trial for Thomas Patrick Morris, convicted of conspiracy against the $30,000,000 Wendel estate (TIME, Nov. 28, 1932), three affidavits and a genealogical table were filed in a Manhattan court. The genealogical table showed that an itinerant Pennsylvanian herb doctor named Lewis James Little was a second cousin of the late John G. Wendel. The three affidavits were sworn to by his two daughters and a son-in-law. They all told the same story: Long ago John G. Wendel had summoned Lewis James Little to his Fifth Avenue home to deliver a baby. After birth the baby was stowed away in the house attic for several weeks, later smuggled out of the house, given to a family named Morris. The father of the baby, the affidavits alleged, was John G. Wendel; its mother John G. Wendel's spinster sister, Mary.

"You must come over here. I live in a palace. And, oh boy, it's some palace!"

These words, tapped from a Manila-Detroit telephone call by short-wave radio sets, crackled into the home of many an eavesdropping Philippine resident. They recognized the voice of Bachelor Frank Murphy, their U. S. Governor-General, knew that he was talking about his official residence, low-rambling Malacanan Palace,* gathered that he was talking to a crony in the U. S. city of which he was once Mayor. His transpacific conversation was inadvertently public because the telephone company had not yet installed its "privacy bays" to scramble outgoing messages.

In Oklahoma Representative Willie Cornelius Rogers filed intention to run for renomination on the Democratic ticket and use, as in 1932, the name of Will Rogers--Simultaneously, Contractor Will Oscar Rogers filed intention to run for the same nomination, use the same name. Declared Contractor Will Oscar: "I reckon I got as much right to be Will Rogers as this other feller." Golfer Maureen Orcutt, unopposed, was nominated Democratic candidate for New Jersey State Assemblywoman. Said Nominee Orcutt: "I'm not going to let politics interfere with my golf. . . ."

A paper maker and a paper broker gave a tea in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria for Author Hervey Allen. Occasion: Sale of the 400,000th copy of his Anthony Adverse. Reason: 400,000 copies equal 952,000 Ib. of paper.

*Malacanan Palace was built in the 18th Century as the country house of a Spanish grandee, became a "provisional palace'' in 1863 when a Spanish Governor moved in.

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