Word: astors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lytle Hull, the ex-Mrs. Vincent Astor, vice-chairman of the New York State Defense Savings Committee, decided to give everybody the same Christmas present: books of defense saving stamps...
...There are striking resemblances," says Rosten, "between the founder of the House of Vanderbilt [Cornelius, steamboat owner] and the founder of the House of Mayer [Louis B., theater owner], between the first Warner [Harry M., butcher's son] and the first Astor [John Jacob, butcher's son], ... In 50 years names like Zanuck, Mannix, and Selznick may well be great. . . . 'Honour,' says an ancient proverb, 'is but ancient riches...
...confusing, but "Maltese Falcon" is one of the most exciting pictures that's come out of Hollywood in years. Add Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Peter Lorre, add a superb job on photography, whether it's heightening the tension of a midnight phone-call, or vivifying the nickname of "The Fat Man," and you have a nearly perfect thriller. It is marred only by the ending. We may be grateful for the absence of sentimentality, but even a detective's romance should not meet so brusque a fate...
Died. Amos Tuck French Sr., 78, wealthy social leader at Newport and Tuxedo Park in the early 1900s; in Chester, N.H. His offspring attracted attention when: in 1911 daughter Julia Steele French eloped with the family chauffeur; in 1923 son Francis Ormond French (whose daughter, Ellen, married John Jacob Astor in 1934) became a cab driver, in 1938 applied for a WPA job. Left. By the late Simon Guggenheim, copper tycoon: to the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the bulk of his estate, not yet estimated; to his widow, Olga Hirsh Guggenheim, a $100,000 annuity from...
Alarmed M.P.s, still feeling that way, smelled a "sinister" monopoly by a handful of Britain's big publishers-Lord Rothermere (who inherited his father's title last year-Daily Mail, Daily Mirror), Major John Jacob Astor (the Times'), Lord Kemsley (Daily Sketch), Lord Camrose (Daily Telegraph & Morning Post) and Lord Beaverbrook (Daily Express)-who already owned 25% of Reuters stock through their provincial papers. The M.P.s warned that such control might destroy Reuters' go-year reputation for trustworthy reporting. They also feared for the good name of BBC, Reuters' biggest customer, feared still more...