"Names make news." Last week these names made this news:
At 9 o'clock one morning John Jacob Astor III went furtively to work as assistant to the assistant marine superintendent of the International Mercantile Marine Co. in Manhattan. For three days he clerked quietly. Then newshawks discovered him, pestered until he glumly gave an interview. "I was," said he, "very glad to get this job." Whether his half-brother Vincent Astor, vice president and part owner of the company, was also glad, he did not know. He was working eight hours a day, six days...
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