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...government will shortly introduce legislation creating lifetime peerages for both men and women. Such a law, if passed, would for the first time in history plunk "lady lords" down beside gentleman lords in Britain's Upper House.* This stratospheric feminist victory was hailed by "delighted" Virginia-born Lady Astor, 78, bodkin-tongued widow of a viscount and first woman to sit in the House of Commons. With due appreciation to the Queen, Nancy Astor said: "I hope they will create me a lifetime peeress...
Selected last summer as the mayoralty candidate when more likely prospects shied away, Hotelman Christenberry (Astor, Ambassador) soon ran into difficulty finding either 1) a choler-provoking issue or 2) money. So uninspired were New York Republican leaders over mayoralty chances that contributions which should have gone to the city campaign went instead to the G.O.P. state and national committees. Unable to afford TV saturation of New York's 2,400,000 voters, Christenberry has contented himself with strained sidewalk handshakes and alliterative speeches. (Wagner, he said last week, was a "municipal Milquetoast" of "dynamic indecision, vigorous vacillation...
MANHATTAN BUILDING BOOM is slowing because of inflation and increasingly tight money. Millionaire Vincent Astor temporarily halted excavation for his $60 million, 46-story Astor Plaza skyscraper on Park Avenue because he cannot find necessary additional financing at 5½ % interest rates. Mortgage lenders say several other buildings among 29 currently planned for city could also be held up by scarce credit...
...picked up the telephone. "Would you like some tea?" He ordered two teas and a side of cinnamon toast. "I think you should point this interview toward the opening of Raintree County at the Astor. The musical score is the first I've written in a long time. Good or bad, it's an artistic work. Kind of like an elephant in a hotel lobby; you can't ignore...
Raintree County, with Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor, and a whole flock of northern Gone-With-the-Winders plays at lukewarm epic-making at the Astor, to epic length. MGM spent millions...