People, Jul. 23, 1934

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

John Jacob Astor III & wife got as far as Seattle on their month's honeymoon in the Pacific Northwest, secluded themselves in a hotel for two days, hitched their private car to an Eastbound express sped back to New York. Explained young Mr Astor, surrounded by 46 detectives: "We couldn't afford the car any longer."*

For a dinner party at her Beverly Mass., summer home, Socialite Mrs Juliette Leiter, widow of Chicago's rich, speculating Joseph...

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