Word: astors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...magazine's public-service articles, one of the most popular features the Companion has ever run. Born in Gloucester, Mass., Dakin went to the Companion after years on the New York Telegram, the New York Daily News (where he scored a famed beat in 1936 with Cinemactress Mary Astor's diary during a court fight over custody of her child), and PM, where he ran the "News for Living." At Collier's, Dakin's friendly ways were best evidence of a change in editorial climate. Word went out to old-time Cottier's writers, scared...
Outcast of the Island--Her marathan kiss has been clipped by the Boston censors, but exotic, exciting Karima still has a lot to offer. At the Astor...
...lost his first job as a bus boy at Manhattan's Hotel Astor because he broke too many dishes. The McAlpin fired him for reporting to duty in one white shoe and one yellow one. The Ritz suspended him for dropping an ambassador's breakfast tray. Only after he had served in the U.S. Army in World War I (he was an attendant at a Government insane asylum), did he begin to work steadily-first in the banquet department at the Ritz, and later as a writer and illustrator of such bestsellers as Hotel Splendide and Life Class...
...Beloved Country--A dramatic filming of Alan Paton's novel of South Africa, playing at the Astor. Gives a powerful and accurate picture of racial relations; hatreds and loves...
From Little Acorns. How modestly it all started! To help support the Civil War, Lincoln's Congress in 1861 adopted 33% levy on all incomes over $800. The New York Herald applauded: "Millionaires like Mr. W. B. Astor, Commodore Vanderbilt . . . and others will henceforth contribute a fair proportion of their wealth to the national Government." This act was never enforced, but in 1862 Congress passed a 3% levy, plus a 5% tax on incomes over $10,000, thus introducing the now famed principle of taxation according to ability to pay. There was little dissent. In 1864, more gradations were...