Word: astors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...career of her husband. Producer Sidney Glazier has cleared both obstacles so cleanly that the viewer is hardly aware they exist. Sifting through more than 3000 stills, he has found a handful of early shots that reveal all the sadness, isolation, and boredom of Eleanor's childhood in Mrs. Astor's New York. The film clips of the later years are edited with such spirit and precision that the viewer rarely wonders how FDR and the War are doing: the energetic First Lady more than fills the time and screen...
...price but he rarely used direct blackmail. Instead he "sold" his victims advertising in Town Topics, stock in his corporation (which never paid a dividend), or subscriptions to his Fads and Fancies of Representative-Americans, the colonel's hypocritical who's who in society. John Jacob Astor bought. So did J. P. Morgan, Mrs. Collis Huntington, Clarence Mackay, three Vanderbilts and scores of others...
...list of immigrants and their sons who helped to mold American art and industry, politics and science is endless. There were Steel Magnate Andrew Carnegie (Scotland), Fur Trader John Jacob Astor (Germany), Inventor Alexander Graham Bell (Scotland), the Du Fonts from France and Yeast Tycoon Charles L. Fleischmann from Hungary. German-born Albert Einstein, Hungarian-born Edward Teller and Italian-born Enrico Fermi helped the U.S. to unlock the atom's secrets. There have been more immigrant musicians than one can shake a baton at, from Irving Berlin (Russia) and Victor Herbert (Ireland) to Artur Rubinstein (Poland) and Dimitri...
Last April, when Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art gave a black-tie party to celebrate the opening of its "Three Centuries of American Painting" exhibition, Edie and Andy stood cheek by jowl with Lady Bird Johnson, Mrs. Vincent Astor and Harry Guggenheim. Andy was wearing yellow sunglasses and a ragged tuxedo jacket over paint-splattered black work pants. Edie had dyed her hair silver (to match Andy's), wore lilac pajamas that covered nothing but a body stocking. Since then, they have gone to more parties than a caterer, sometimes staying for just a moment before moving...
...Newport Reading Room, where men of the summer colony still gather in the afternoon for drinks, backgammon or boccie. To gain membership in any of these hallowed institutions is every bit as difficult as it was to be accepted in Newport back in the days when old John Jacob Astor remarked that "a man who has a million dollars is as well off as if he were rich." In some ways it may be more difficult today; since many of Newport's most influential regulars are no longer rich themselves, they are apt to screen newcomers more on the basis...