Word: astors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...younger generation at play are rare these days, came two substitutes, rare in their own way: a shot of grizzle-bearded, 50-year-old Philosopher C. E. M. Joad giving his portly all in a London field-hockey match; a shot of 63-year-old Lady Nancy Astor footing it featly at the opening of bomb-blasted Plymouth's summer season...
...night last week Broadway and half Manhattan blacked out -from Greenwich Village to Harlem. The greatest concentration of light in all the world blinked out. Suddenly dark were the marquees and façades of Roseland, Lindy's, the Paramount, the Astor; dark were the skyhigh signs. Out went the New York Times's electric bulletins -as though time itself had quit on Broadway. The only light a plane could see came from a pale "bomber's" moon, touching the skyscraper towers and silvering the rivers. Crowds in Times Square watched the phenomenon, dumbstruck. Broadway...
...Boston's N. May Karff: the U.S. women's chess championship; for the fourth time in five years; defeating all eight opponents; at the Hotel Astor, Manhattan. Second place went to Mrs. Donald Belcher, 1940 champion; third to Nanny Roos, onetime Belgian champion...
...MARY ASTOR...
Actually, handsome young David Astor will not take over until war's end. The Garvin-Astor split was not over him but over Winston Churchill, whom Garvin supports and the Astors don't like. Gar-vin's two "serious offenses" were outlined to him in a letter from Observer Director Sir Edward Grigg, lately resigned Joint Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for War. Said Grigg (no relation to new War Secretary Sir Percy James Grigg), Garvin had sinned: 1) in urging Churchill to keep his post as Defense Minister; 2) in saying that Beaverbrook should stay...