People: Sep. 15, 1930

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The Corsair (IV), enormous $2,500,000 yacht of John Pierpont Morgan, with Mr. and Mrs. Junius Spencer Morgan aboard, shelved herself on Lobster Rock, a reef in Gilkey's Harbor, Maine. Next morning at high tide two tugs heaved sturdily, budged her not. At evening high tide two tugs and a coast guard cutter heaved mightily, floated her free. Mr. Morgan received the news at Gannochy Lodge in Forfarshire where he had gone for the grouseshooting.*

J. Howard van Sciver, onetime commodore of the Tri-State Yacht Club at Philadelphia, his son, his daughter and two other young girls, clad only in bathing suits, escaped unharmed when the van Sciver yacht Clarella II caught fire off Cape May.

Dr. Serge Voronoff, gonad replacer, after a world tour last week returned to his 200 apes at Nice, France, prepared to proceed to his 3,000 sheep in Algeria. Of U. S. businessmen he remarked: "They die at the age of 50. They do not die in the sense that life is extinct. But they are exhausted, worn out, and as good as dead. Their lives are finished. It is due to the pace, the tempo of life in America, the price the American must pay for being ultra-modern."

Two years ago five Yale undergraduates and recent graduates hired the schooner Chance for a voyage to the South Sea islands. Organizer was George Clymer Brooke of Philadelphia. Companions were Joseph Roby Jr. of Rochester, N. Y., Alexander Crosby Brown of Philadelphia, Edward Howard Dodd Jr. of Manhattan, Thomas Marshall of Philadelphia. Last week the Chance was nearing New Haven again. At Australia all but Alexander Brown and Edward Dodd forsook the romantic wayfaring and, except for Organizer Brooke, returned to the U. S. with despatch and comfort. Mr. Brooke found a languorous island with a comfortable house, numerous servants, and a seemingly profitable copra plantation, and settled down. Lorn Messrs. Brown and Dodd found new Yale shipmates and a Harvard graduate. Last week they slowly approached New Haven aboard the Chance.

Senator Carter Glass of Virginia, who operates a dairy farm at his home in Lynchburg, Va., gave his reasons for selling 60 purebred milch cows: "I just can't afford to buy feed for the winter. If I did I would run behind about $25,000. With no hay available in Virginia and the prices so high due to the $5-a-ton tariff rate imposed by the last tariff bill, I'm forced to sell. I suppose that some of my cows will just go to the butcher shop."