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NUCLEAR ENERGY for peacetime use will get a boost from a group of businessmen who have banded together for atomic projects. The group, which includes the Rockefeller, Astor, Firestone and Mellon interests, has hired Robert LeBaron, former assistant (for atomic energy) to the Secretary of Defense to explore possibilities for atomic projects in such fields as power and medicine, may soon set up a program for private investment...
Portly John Jacob Astor, whose great-great-great-grandfather started the family fortune by gathering furs, only to have many of his male descendants dissipate parcels of their inheritance by giving furs away, was up to his patrician ears in the sort of misfortune that afflicts only the very rich. It began when Astor, 42, divorced his second wife Gertrude in June, then drew a deep breath and took on No. 3, Miami Divorcee Dolores ("Dolly") Pullman, 26. Off for a European honeymoon billed as a six-month safari, Astor was back in Manhattan only a month later, offered...
Married. John Jacob Astor III, 42, whose fortune, inherited from his great-great-grandfather, is estimated at $70 million; and Dolores Margaret ("Dolly") Fullman, 26, blonde Miami divorcee; he for the third time, she for the second; in Arlington...
Dancers swung and swayed with Sammy Kaye on the Astor roof and shirt-sleeved crowds jostled up and down Times Square one hot, sticky night last week as 2,000 men and women filed off Broadway and into the Astor's grand ballroom to pay homage to Roy Cohn. Except for Indian Charlie and Private Dave Schine (on duty at Camp Gordon, Ga.), nearly everyone in the McCarthy crowd was there. New York had probably not seen such a display of sentiment since Lou Gehrig said farewell at Yankee Stadium...
Divorced. By John Jacob Astor III, 42: Gertrude Gretsch Astor, 31, his second wife; after ten years of marriage (four years of separation), one child; in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico...