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...Lady Astor finally got back home to Old Virginia, and from there was heading for Florida (not to see Winston Churchill-"That would be a busman's holiday"*). She was taking Lord Astor to a warm climate "to restore him." Explained the 66-year-old Viscountess: "Everybody wants to be a young widow-they go like hot cakes, but nobody wants to be an old widow...
Soon "the silver basket in the vestibule of the Tower house contained the cards of Sylvester Bull, Templeton Snelling, and Ward McAllister, besides a hundred others." Mrs. Astor herself, dressed as Queen Elizabeth, attended the gorgeous Tower costume ball. Also present at the ball was rascally Terry, who had gate-crashed, disguised as a Mexican caballero. Simeon shot Terry dead. Cried little Lucy: "Why did papa hurt my real papa...
...Lady Astor, 66, walked down a tiny fruit steamer's gangplank into a stage-idol's welcome in Manhattan, gave swarming reporters and cameramen a performance to remember. Wrapped in mink and hung with diamond-&-sapphire earrings, she got For She's a Jolly Good Fellow from the ship's crewmen, cried back happily, "What more could a girl ask?" and faced the press. "I'm an extinct volcano," said she, but soon became active...
...Virginia-born Viscountess, 25 years an M.P., was home for a two-months' visit. The passage had been rough, the ship six days late, and for ten days, said Lady Astor, she "read the Bible steadily . . . gives you the proper perspective...
Married. Stanley Walker, 47, able author-journalist, chronicler of the jazz age (Mrs. Astor's Horse) and of his own former job on the New York Herald Tribune (City Editor); and Ruth Howell, onetime Manhattan music critic, wartime OWI editor; in Dallas...