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...Queen Mary, the Queen Mother, appeared horrified at the question, "Who are Her Majesty's American friends?" He replied, "I cannot answer that question. I believe Her Majesty is acquainted with Mrs. Andrew Carnegie." Significantly not mentioned were Mr. & Mrs. Henry Ford, once asked by Viscountess Astor to tea at her country place on an afternoon when King George & Queen Mary also came for tea (TIME, April 23, 1928). Mr. Ford was, however, twice "commanded" to audience with Edward of Wales, as a special favor before Edward came to the throne...
Succeeding his father "Astor", who nightly wandered through the silent corridors of Fogg Museum, "Rex" took over the duties of watchdog of the Arts in a simple but dignified ceremony Monday night...
...Astor", a full-blooded Belgian shepherd, died last week. An autopsy proved he had succumbed to gall stones and a tumor. His only falling was that in his old age he became "unhousebroken...
...Gertrude Lawrence came as "Day." Mrs. S. Stanwood Menken, "Silver Rain," wore 600 yards of silver-lined bugle fringe, a headdress six feet wide illuminated with blue neon tubes. Gypsy Rose Lee wore spangles. That was the seventeenth Beaux-Arts Ball which took place at Manhattan's Hotel Astor last week...
...latter organization, 120 years old, last week passed another milestone by dedicating a new $500,000 home, a six-story stone building at Park Avenue and 57th Street, remodeled and air-conditioned. Since 1853 the American Bible Society's Bible House had been a landmark in fusty, downtown Astor Place. From its big old red brick building, it has sent out 135,000,000 Bibles and texts in 972 languages and dialects to all parts of the world. Bible House still belongs to the Society, will continue to be used as a storehouse for $2,000,000 worth...