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...role as Hearst's "Cholly Knickerbocker," pompadoured Society Gossip Igor Loiewski-Cassini (TIME, Nov. 5) last week started a series of profiles on New York social registerites. To prepare himself, he boned up on the Astor clan by reading Dixon Wecter's scholarly Saga of American Society. When it came time to share his new-found knowledge with his readers, Gossip Cassini found himself full of his reading. Samples...
Wecter: "[William Waldorf Astor] on June 3, 1917 . . . became Viscount Astor, amid jeers from a large section of the British press which accused him of buying the title outright...
Cassini: ". . . William Waldorf removed himself to England, became a British subject and amid jeers from a large section of the British press, which accused him of buying the title outright, became . . . Viscount Astor...
Wecter: "Vincent Astor, present head of the family and childless, was a phlegmatic youth . . . has become the most progressive of all the Astors-founding model farms and building model tenements for the poor, as well as running de luxe apartments and the St. Regis for the rich...
...Lady Astor, drawing newshawks as a honeypot draws flies, was still ad-libbing for publication, three weeks after she landed in the U.S. Her advice to U.S. Anglophobes: "You had better get on your knees and thank God for Great Britain." Her advice to occupation authorities: "I would send a Salvation Army to Europe with Bibles. ..." Lady Astor on the sexes: "Women have more moral courage than men. . . . We didn't make this world." On the future of the male: "I think you ought to have a rest, really...