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...FURS BY ASTOR by John Upton Terrell. 490 pages. Morrow...
...mind of the American Indian the Great White Father meant the President of the U.S. Not necessarily so, says John Terrell. During the 1820s and 1830s, at any rate, the Great White Father was a stumpy man with beaked nose, pursed mouth and billowing chins named John Jacob Astor...
...president of the American Fur Co., Astor ruled the closest thing to a private empire ever established in America. Most of the fur-trading tribes -the Winnebagos, Cherokees, Chickasaws and Sioux-were in perpetual hock to him, and they had a habit of going into battle with medals bearing his likeness strung about their necks. Astor's puffy face, in fact, was thought to be a more powerful talisman than a scalp or even a medicine bonnet...
...John Profumo, Great Britain's Secretary of State for War, and place all four on the luxurious Cliveden Estate of Lord Astor one sultry summer evening...
...throw it on the bank, and bathed naked.....Soon afterwards (the rest of the party) came to watch the bathing...Christine rushed to get her swimming costume. Stephen Ward threw it to one side so Christine could not get it and Christine seized a towel to hide herself. Lord Astor and Mr. Profume arrived at this moment and it was all treated as a place of fun, nothing indecent...