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...Yale gridiron on December 1, but would be in New York the night before to serenade the Harvard club there. Schine stated that he would probably take 60 men with him on the Eli excursion. He also announced that he had secured enough accommodations for that number at the Astor Hotel in New York...
...Mary Astor, 39, cinemactress whose purple diary, involving Playwright George Kaufman (George Washington Slept Here) made top tabloid news in 1936, announced that this winter Chicago Broker Thomas G. Wheelock would become her fourth husband...
Captain Vincent Astor, peacetime yachtsman (the Nourmahal), was awarded the Navy Commendation Ribbon in Manhattan for "meritorious performance . . . initiative, unflagging energy and devotion" to administrative duties with the Confidential Fishing Vessel Observers, who watched for subs while fishing along the Atlantic Coast...
...Cinemactress Mary Astor in The Merry Life of Mary Christmas, a hackneyed comedy series about a chichi female columnist that sounded as soporific as soap opera...
...save for some 20 septuagenarians and conservative Lady Astor, retiring from public life, most of its members were once more headed for the hustings. The retirement of U.S.-born Lady Astor was itself a historic occasion. For 25 years her whiplash tongue had flicked unsparingly at political opponents and political dullards. But most members were sorry to see her go. Cried Will Thorne, 87, another retiring M.P., as she filed out: "Goodbye, Lady Astor." She turned, blew him a kiss and waved her hand...