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...years he established three publishing firms, and an investment company. He had no trouble raising money. Was he not the son of Major Reginald Baker, well known as a cinema magnate and managing director of Baling Studios? Wealthy Sir Bernard Docker and Sir John Mann contributed financial backing, Viscount Astor and Major Henry Legge-Bourke, M.P., were glad to serve on his board of directors. Soon Peter had 18 companies, ranging from Edinburgh to London...
Caught in legal crossfire from his two most recent wives, John Jacob Astor, 43, took the easiest way out. He conceded to the claim of wife No. 2, mousy blonde Gertrude Gretsch Astor, 31, that their Mexican divorce of last July was no good. This cleared the way for a Manhattan judge to hand Gertrude an easygoing stipend from Astor's easy-come $70 million-$2,500 a month, plus $7,500 for lawyers' fees. It also marooned Dolores ("Dolly") Pullman Astor, 26, very blonde Miami Beach divorcee who married Astor in August, ditched him in September, sued...
Best of Broadway (Wed. 10 p.m., CBS). The Philadelphia Story, with Dorothy McGuire, John Payne, Herbert Marshall, Mary Astor...
...obscure streets, Massachusetts Avenue, Beck reigned in the 1870's and 1880's. Opposite the Union on "Quincy Square," it housed such famous men as Theodore Roosevelt, John Jacob Astor, Jr., and John Pierpont Morgan. Its elaborate suites, properly filled with oak panelling and mahogany furniture, were often passed from father to son to keep the tradition in the family. When Morgan's son, for example, was only four hours old, his father telegraphed a reservation to Beck Hall for young Junius. And it is even said that Walter C. Baylies, vice-president of the newly-formed Edison Electric Company...
Crooner Eddie Fisher, 25, discovered that he had a distinguished fan. In Manhattan last week, President Eisenhower heard Eddie sing at the Hotel Sheraton Astor, then delayed his own television speech and asked Fisher to do another verse of Irving Berlin's Count Your Blessings for the TV audience...