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...South Africa, Lady Astor indignantly denied rumors that she had married a U.S. Army officer. "A ghastly lie," spluttered Nancy. "Completely unthinkable. Horrible. I'm shocked. I'm insulted. Surely nobody in his right senses believes it. This is going...
...York Republican state committee's $100-a-plate fund-raising dinner in Manhattan. With the President of the U.S. as the star attraction, the committee got more $100 customers (3,900) than any hotel ballroom could hold, so it hired two hotel ballrooms, one at the Astor and one at the Waldorf-Astoria. Ike agreed to give his speech twice-"pitch a doubleheader...
...honor of Mamie Eisenhower. At the Tafts' red brick Victorian house in Georgetown, men who had been snarling at one another over the Bohlen case met, chatted and sipped. Everything was as sweet as California port until one of the guests, American-turned-Briton Nancy Astor, sidled up to Joe McCarthy. Said razor-tongued Lady Astor, eying Joe's drink: "I hope it's poison." Said Joe later: "I've been informed that some nice, kindly old lady did make that remark...
...theater had gathered to toast his 50th year in Fleet Street. The Daily Express s Frank Owen, who years ago dubbed Swaffer "the Pope of Fleet Street," recalled the first sentence of Swaffer's verbal autobiography: "I was born in 1879, as was Lord Beaverbrook, Lord Camrose, Lady Astor, Joseph Stalin. What a vintage year!" Replied Hannen Swaffer: "You may wonder why I still persist in going to the office every day. Without that I should...
Back in 1931, when Stalin was ruthlessly liquidating the kulaks in his drive to collectivize the land, he gave one of his rare interviews to outsiders. His guests were George Bernard Shaw and Lady Astor. As always, Nancy Astor was forthright : "When are you going to stop killing people?" she asked Stalin...