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Last week, in the musty old Observer office, there was hardly a ripple when a bright young man took over as editor. He was forthright David Astor, 36, whose grandfather bought the paper from Lord Northcliffe one year before young David was born. He took the tiller from Editor Ivor Brown, who returned to his favorite pursuits of drama critic and essayist. In Brown's six-year term, the Observer had gone nonpartisan, and become a better all-round paper (except to Tories) than Lord Kemsley's rival Sunday Times...
...Openers. As editor, David Astor had more to recommend himself than the family name. No man to let his schooling interfere with his education, he took six months off between Eton and Oxford to roam Germany. In Heidelberg one day in 1931, he saw and was shocked by a prenatal symptom of the police state: lines of trucks packed with truncheon-bearing police, ready to charge if unionists clashed with rowdy Nazi paraders. His mother, Nancy Astor, and her Cliveden Set didn't want to be beastly to the Germans during the Munich era, but David Astor was already...
...visits to Russia, one with his parents and Bernard Shaw, he had his eyes opened to the Communist side of the coin. The Soviet system did not measure up to his standards of liberty. "I was anti-Russian," he says, "even before it was fashionable to be anti-Russian." Astor worked in a Glasgow factory and a London bank before becoming a junior reporter on the Yorkshire Post. In 1945, demobbed as a captain in the Royal Marines (with the Croix de Guerre), Astor joined the family's Observer as foreign editor. He is a hard-working boss...
...Whose proprietor, John Jacob Astor, is a brother of the Observer's proprietor...
Yacht for Sale. The famed 1,969-ton luxury yacht Nourmahal-built at Germany's Krupp yards for Vincent Astor, turned over to the Coast Guard in 1941 for submarine patrol service-was up for sale to the highest bidder...