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...vigor, vitality and cheek repel me," she said in one of her rare fits of humility. "I am the kind of woman I would run from." In 84 years of almost constant exercise, Nancy Aster's acerbic tongue and quixotic heart led many to agree with her self-estimate. As Britain's leading feminist, best-known hostess, and fulltime gadfly, she herself was criticized, denounced and derided during much of her life, but all her foes in chorus could not have insulted so many people of high and low station so joyously as Lady Astor...
...well over $100, they come single-breasted, double-breasted, belted in back, on the sides, all the way around or not at all, spill off the racks in solid colors, stars, stripes, prints, polka dots and patterns. This year's favorite is flowers: from A for aster to Z for zinnia, they make a coat a serenade to spring; its wearer becomes a veritable walking garden. All make superb between-season coats, but then there is this little problem: not one is waterproof...
...post was established in 1912 as a result of a gift donated by industrialist and financier Edmund C. Converse. He was president of the Liberty National Bank, the Banker's Trust Company, and the Aster Trust Company...
Gene Kelly and Miss Carrion appear together near the end of the picture in a prolonged ballet which certainly equals any of the old Rogers-Aster numbers. In this second dream sequence, Kelly, who also did the film's choreography, dances through the streets of Paris into a Toulouse-Latter painting which slowly comes to life; an extraordinarily effective piece of photography. Kelly and Miss Caron are joined by the debonair Georges Guetary, who fits somewhere into the love quadrangle, and helps add an authentic Parisian touch to the proceedings...
...early New Deal days Franklin Roosevelt cruised about on Vincent Aster's palatial Nourmahal. Then he acquired the Sequoia, switched to the Potomac in 1936 after the Navy condemned the Sequoia as a firetrap. The topheavy Potomac made many a weekend trip on which FDR regaled his guests with drink and stories. But she rolled like a barrel-which never bothered FDR but sent many a guest to the rail...