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Married. John Jacob Astor III, 32, outsized second son of the late Colonel Astor (drowned on the Titanic in 1912); and Gertrude Gretsch, 21, Manhattan post-debutante; he for the second time; in Manhattan...
...wartime manpower shortage has little if anything to do with the supremacy of Helen Sobel. Eleven Life Masters are now in uniform, but the championship sessions at Manhattan's Hotel Astor showed a better quality of play than in prewar years. (It also set four new attendance records-daily average, 100 tables.) The Culbertson system, basis of all contract bidding, has been modified, streamlined and so vastly improved that oldtime experts are hard put to keep up with the latest bidding methods (the opening two-bid, once the strongest forcing call, is now used as a weak...
Biggest competition from mechanical refrigerators comes in domestic use (18% of Sinek's business). But he has an optimistic answer: "We're going to look after the low-income group, the masses, and let Astor St. take care of itself. Our ambition is to be the Henry Ford of the refrigerator business." He has set up an "educational department" to train icemen to make friends with women. They should help them with their housework, should show them where to put things in the icebox to get full benefit from the ice. He wants all his icemen...
...Tories favored the bill.* Laborites, Liberals, Independents damned it as a device of big property owners. Said paunchy, practical Laborite Lewis Silkin: "This bill abandons any possibility of national planning." Cried Socialist Captain John Dugdale: "The landlords are readier to sacrifice their sons than their property." Replied Tory Lady Astor: "God help you. That is a most repellent point of view...
John Jacob Astor III, pear-shaped prince of the idle rich, drove down a Manhattan street in a brand-new Rolls-Royce, smacked into a jaywalking 17-year-old boy, was hustled off to a police station, where he borrowed two nickels to make phone calls, was freed and cleared after two hours of questioning, left in another brand new Rolls-Royce which he had summoned with one of the borrowed nickels...