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...York World's Fair:**John Jacob Astor III; Henry Ford, who let school children snapshoot him; Glamorite Brenda Frazier; her onetime cavalier, William Livingston, who dined at another table; Vittorio Cini, Commissioner General of the 1942 Rome Exposition (said he: "Mussolini and Hitler are thinking peace"); Playboy James Donahue, who smashed a photographer's camera when he snapped Cousin Barbara (Countess Haugwitz-Reventlow...
...home. Walter Wheeler is the reverse, has steady nerves and a passion for detail, likes to organize. One thing this antipodal pair have in common is a love of sailing. In 1929 Yachtsman Bowes sailed his six-meter Saleema to an international championship. In 1938 Yachtsman Wheeler won the Astor cup with his Q class Cottonblossom II. Messrs. Bowes and Wheeler have still another thing in common, their business-Pitney-Bowes Postage Meter Co. of Stamford, Conn. Chairman Bowes invents the meters and President Wheeler sells them. Last week they presented their slickest postage meter to date, the "Mailomat...
Virginia-born Viscountess Astor, M.P. for Plymouth, has never allowed her Conservative Party affiliations to interfere with her penchant for reform. One of her pet hates is Demon Rum; another is flogging, a practice still legal in the British Navy and British prisons. Unruly sailors are rarely flogged now, but stern judges sometimes order the lash as punishment for particularly brutal civil crimes...
...Lady Astor rose last week before a conference of 3,000 women Conservatives, to speak in favor of a Government-sponsored bill abolishing criminal floggings. She found to her surprise that not only were the majority of the women for flogging, but positively rude about it. Throughout her remarks they chorused "No!" "Oh!" "Shame!" Lady Astor, no mean heckler herself, asked for silence first applause afterward. The chairwoman asked for traditional British fair play. "What about assaults on women and children?" screamed the female Conservatives. The Astor comeback was not up to standard: "The more...
Already the fair has brought much new business to New York. The Hotel Astor, partly in anticipation of fair-increased business, spent $1,500,000 on new elevators, air conditioning, etc. Property owners along Queens Boulevard built $90,000,000 worth of dwellings. The fourth largest suspension bridge in the world (across the East River at Whitestone), an $18,000,000 project, will be opened day before the fair. North Beach airport near the fair was rebuilt at a cost...