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...touch & go. Silver-spoon-fed William Force Dick, half-brother of John Jacob Astor, was out $200-odd. The way the sheriff told it, handsome Sportsman Dick picked up the wrong hitchhikers-three young men who produced a gun, made him drive them all the way from Long Island to Manhattan, took his money and let him go in darkest Harlem...
Zeckendorf took over the management of Vincent Astor's realty interests, swelled their value in a series of 150 transactions by about $5 million (with commissions to W. & K. totaling $1½ million...
...huge New York and Los Angeles rallies, to lure money-heavy political angels into glittering banquet rooms. A bright, diminutive 35-year-old ex-newspaperwoman named Hannah Dorner, who affectionately calls ICCASP members "glamor pusses," handled most of its promotion stunts with a hardheaded competency in Manhattan's Astor Hotel, overlooking Broadway. Nevertheless, the committee could still be expected to cut didoes...
John Jacob Astor III, 34, plum-shaped posthumous son of the Colonel* and half-brother of Vincent, was having a time with the Manhattan newspapers. They were breaking out all over with photos of a symmetrical 18-year-old girl in suburban Philadelphia, and stuff about her heartbreak. The girl, Virginia Jacobs, called him "Jackims." He was supposed to have had her on the qui vive since she was 15, but now she could not find him. She said he had talked of marrying her and "going to Paris, where we'd have lots of children" -that...
...Wife Barbara had offered him $1 million to give up his part-time custody of their ten-year-old son, Lance. Gritted father: "I would rather lose my right leg. . . ." Then he subsided again into Newport with Wife No. 2, the former Margaret Drayton, granddaughter of Mrs. William Astor...