Word: astors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vague explanation given the public was that Editor Garvin and his employer Viscount Astor had parted company over "editorial policy." The Grand Old Man of British journalism cagily commented: "For the first time for 34 years I can take my dog for a walk on a Friday instead of staying indoors to write my article. . . ." London reports said that Garvin had quit because the Observer was being turned over to Lord Astor's son Francis David Langhorne, socialist, Laborite, ex-factory worker and now captain of Marines...
...Supporting actor: Donald Crisp (for Mr. Morgan, in How Green); actress: Mary Astor (for Sandra Kovac, in The Great...
...Lady Astor, presiding at a business women's meeting in London, put her best foot too far forward, slipped off the platform's edge, fell flat on her back on the floor. Scurriers-to-her-rescue: Anthony J. Drexel Biddle, Sir Earle Christmas Grafton Page, Australian member of the War Council. Lady Astor went on with the meeting...
...Vincent Astor, 50, millionaire yachting companion of President Roosevelt, went on active duty as a full commander in the Third Naval District (around New York City). The Navy said his duties were secret...
Married. Virginia Middleton French, sister of Mrs. John Jacob Astor; and William Force Dick, son of the late Madeleine Force Astor Dick; in Manhattan. The bride's father is Francis Ormond French, blue-blood maverick who worked in 1923 as a cab driver, applied...