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...handful of survivors of the Titanic came together in a Philadelphia hotel to observe the 70th anniversary of the sinking. They fetched out their memories of that night and passed them around like photographs. They gazed at a few forlorn relics of the voyage: Mrs. John Jacob Astor's life jacket, a battered deck chair, other odds and ends from the unsinkable "Floating Palace" before it went down...
...Lady Astor: Winston, if you were my husband I should flavor your coffee with poison. Churchill: Madam, if I were your husband I should drink...
...When are you going to stop killing people?" Lady Astor bluntly asked Joseph Stalin in 1931, when he was liquidating the kulaks (wealthy farmers) in his drive to collectivize the land. His reply: "When it is no longer necessary...
Kissinger's 17-day hegira was a long-planned private tour. He was riding not in an Air Force plane but a corporate jet, in company with his wife Nancy, CBS Chairman William Paley and Brooke Astor, the New York socialite who gave a postelection party for Ronald Reagan. Yet both Kissinger's itinerary and his comments to the press left the impression that he was trying to help fashion a Middle East strategy for the incoming Reagan Administration. After his talks with Sadat, Kissinger announced that the Egyptian leader would be received as an "honored friend...
Amedeo Modigliani died at 35 of tuberculosis and the cumulative ravages of drink and drugs. Amedeo means "beloved of God," but Modigliani died bone poor and with no hint of the acclaim his paintings would posthumously receive. Yet the play at Greenwich Village's Astor Place Theater is full of fun, fire and faith, a boozy tribute to art, love and the strange creative uses of adversity...