Word: astors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year-old Jacob Riis public-housing project on Manhattan's Lower East Side, Lady Bird Johnson dedicated a new three-acre open space that is likely to be a trend setter for cities across the nation. Financed by a $900,000 grant from the Vincent Astor Foundation, Riis Plaza offers not one but four rooms to replace a sterile, downtrodden mall...
...play area is a progression of delights. From the sand pit, wood-block stepping stones lead hippety-hop to a tree house, added at Mrs. Astor's special request. Next comes a child-size maze made of rough concrete emblazoned with abstract symbols painted in bright primary colors. "It was all planned," says Friedberg, "as a continuous play experience, rather than a collection of static objects attached to an asphalt base...
...Astor? Though Shriver knew from the first that the poverty campaign would be controversial, he did not realize how implacable his critics would be. On occasion, he says wryly, "it makes me feel like Mrs. Astor on the Titanic. As the iceberg crashed through the ship's walls, she said, 'I asked for ice, but this is ridiculous...
...with a retrospective show in Manhattan, Parrish was hailed as a precursor of pop art, and responded by saying: "How can these avant-garde people get anything out of me? I'm so hopelessly commonplace." Probably his most lasting single work, bought by John Jacob Astor in 1906 for $50,000, is a 30-ft. mural of King Cole and his merry court that still jollifies the bar of Manhattan's St. Regis Hotel...
Died. Viscount Astor, 58, son of Virginia-born Lady Astor, Britain's first woman to sit in Parliament and hostess of the sparkling intellectual "Cliveden Set" at the family estate in the '30s, himself a onetime M.P., who rented a cottage to Osteopath Stephen Ward in 1956 and thereby spawned a demimonde that featured Call Girl Christine Keeler until it collapsed amid the Profumo scandal of 1963; of an apparent heart attack; in Nassau, the Bahamas...