"Will you state your full name please?"
"John Pierpont Morgan."
When J. P. Morgan was called to testify at the famed Pecora investigation of 1933, a midget suddenly perched on his lap, embarrassing the famed banker mightily but making the whole proceeding so ludicrous that public opinion swung to the Morgan side. Last week when Banker Morgan and his son, Junius Spencer Morgan, went to the SEC offices in Manhattan to tell what they knew of the Richard Whitney case, the only embarrassment was the blinding flicker of photographers' bulbs. Eyes closed in resignation, J....
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