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...Beef, pork, lamb, and rice, garnished with almonds, olives, raisins, pimiento, and hot spices. *Present owner: Colonel John Jacob Astor, principal owner of the London Times...
...Lady Astor, facing a group of reporters in Washington, faced a sudden situation: one of her nylons let go. The indomitable Viscountess, explaining chattily that she kept her stockings loose "so they wouldn't tear," stepped behind a desk, quickly pulled herself together, carried...
...special train last week backed into geranium-decked Union Station at Savannah, Ga. Out piled delegates from 34 member nations of the Bretton Woods Fund and Bank. The town, still smarting from Lady Astor's recent wisecrack (see PEOPLE) had washed its face for the occasion, turned out en masse to cheer the delegates...
...Lady Astor revised a simile, between visits to Savannah. She had compared the city to a "beautiful lady with a dirty face." Then Savannah cleaned up. Now, said she, it looked like a lady with not a curlpaper out of place...
Cassini: "The present head of the American Astor clan is Vincent, childless, twice-married, phlegmatic and serious-minded. He founded model farms and builds model tenements for the poor, and runs de luxe apartments and the St. Regis for the rich...