Word: astors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...building, an ornate pile of red brick in Manhattan's East Village, was built by Multimillionaire John Jacob Astor to house New York's first public library. It has been designated a federal landmark and, except when the janitor's dog naps on the front steps, its outward aspect is as staid as old money. Inside, however, the atmosphere combines elements of a happening, a commune and a scene from The Time of Your Life. Bicycles wheel through the stately old lobby. Plays are being rehearsed. Youths in jeans scurry around with portfolios. Music echoes from...
Jews are numbered quite conspicuously in science, medicine, the arts, entertainment. They are the middle-class or lower-middle-class retail merchants and manufacturers. Their names are not Morgan, Astor, Ford, Hunt, Rockefeller, Kennedy. MRS. S. SLATER Margate...
Died. Lord Astor of Hever, 85, patriarch of the Astor family's British branch, and between 1922 and 1959 publisher of the London Times; of heart disease; in Cannes, France. A great-great-grandson of the American fur trader who founded the family fortune, John Jacob Astor V began his 23-year career in the House of Commons in 1922, the same year he bought control of the Times. Elevated to the peerage in 1956, he eventually left Britain to escape heavy death duties...
...Serge Obolensky, 80, the Russian prince who became a U.S.-based patriarch of the international jet set; and Marilyn Fraser Wall, 44, a Grosse Pointe Farms, Mich., millionairess; she for the second time, he for the third (his marriages to the daughters of Czar Alexander II and John Jacob Astor ended in divorce); in Arlington...
...more serious Tory Daily Telegraph and the business-oriented Financial Times have good survival prospects, but three great names in British journalism are in danger of disappearing. Faced with strong competition from Thomson's Sunday Times and the Sunday Telegraph, the Astor-owned Observer is given only a marginal chance to survive, as is the daily Guardian, which this week celebrates its 150th anniversary. Despite frantic efforts to revitalize its formula, the venerable London Times ran $2,400,000 in the red last year, bringing Lord Thomson's total losses since he bought the paper to a reported...