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...Lady Astor, high-strung, American-born M.P., huffed, puffed and pleaded to no avail when Canadian MPs barred her from her London house, which had been requisitioned for Dominion overseas election headquarters. She was assured that she would be able to get in as soon-as the voting was over-nine days later...
...travels of Fred Balentine and B. Joe Nielson are now history, but include such N. Y. notables as Zanzibar, Stork, Waldorf, Astor Roof, La Martinique, Copacabana, El Morecco, and the Diamond Horseshoe. These muchly-traveled lads must truly be big-city smoothies...
...Lady Astor, the House of Commons' uppity, downright, Virginia-born viscountess, vowed that not even V-E day would wean her from teetotalism: "Sometimes I am tempted, but I do not fall...
Married. Dr. Franklyn P. Thorpe, 47, handsome Hollywood gynecologist whose 1935 divorce from Cinemactress Mary Astor heralded the famed courtroom squabble over custody of their child (for three weeks U.S. tabloids went tantivy after her two-volume diary, rich in purple patches); and Virginia Bancroft Mitchell, 25; both for the second time; in Las Vegas...
Britons, recalling the saturnalia of 1918's Armistice Day, were chiefly concerned about the forthcoming V-day celebrations. In the House of Commons, Lady Nancy Astor urged that all pubs be closed on V-day. She hinted darkly at "plans to get our men drunk on the one day when we should all be on our knees thanking God." Said Prime Minister Winston Churchill: "Those misgivings are very exaggerated." But Sir Andrew Duncan, Minister of Supply, shared Lady Astor's misgivings. He warned Britons to "behave in a dignified way and not become inebriated." Nevertheless, pubs and bars...