People, Feb. 23, 1931

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When the Corsair, trim, black yacht of John Pierpont Morgan, was returning from a cruise through the Caribbean, it put in at Miami, Fla. Photographer Ralph Willetts of the Miami News, who has recorded the features of innumerable Florida visitors, determined to lense-catch Mr. Morgan, most elusive of celebrities. He learned, after being chased away, that at 9 o'clock one morning Mr. Morgan's sister-in-law, Mrs. Stephen Van R. Crosby, would go ashore to entrain for the North. Photographer Willetts posted himself close to the Corsair. A fellow reporter placed himself nearby in evidence and when Mr. Morgan came to the rail, shouted: "Mr. Morgan! Can't I have just a couple of minutes?"

Mr. Morgan went to the rail, smiled, said: "No, not even one minute." Thus he exposed himself to Photographer Wil letts. Then he heard the shutter snap and, now not smiling, fled along the deck.

John Davison Rockefeller stamped the golf-course fairway at Ormond Beach, Fla. and cried: "We must denounce that thing, and by that I mean that thing over in Russia!"

Many a citizen of Udine, Italy, home of giant Fisticuffer Primo Camera, made the pilgrimage to nearby Gemona to inspect a colossal statue of Camera, whom they rank with their great men. They voted to erect the statue, when completed, in an Udine square.