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Virginia-born Lady Astor sometimes enlivens London dinner parties with semi-serious tirades against American pin-up girls: "Bare legs! It's disgusting! Our Army ought to be ashamed of itself!"* Last week a batch of grubby British "art" magazines set her off in public. Armed with a stack of them, she rose in the House of Commons and touched off one of those exchanges which a British wit has called "Asterisks...
...Lady Astor: The Government should not grant dwindling paper stock to "art study" magazines. The men who scan nude prints are mostly "not art students." How much paper do such publications absorb...
...Young Ideas" is not as silly as its name suggests. Mary Astor, seeming some-what older than in her "Malteso Falcon" days, is the mother of a couple of teenage brats who try to break up mama's marriage with a college professor so they can get back to heel-raising in New York night clubs...
...great clown resume mastery of his profession. He was, in his own tongue, "colossial." His take ($2,750 weekly from radio, $3,500 more from the nightclub) helped add up to his best fiscal year-about $250,000. He moved into his old suite at the Astor (No. 472) with Eddie Jackson, Jack Roth, for a quarter of a century his drummer, hat buyer, trainer, secretary, valet, friend-and Mr. Umbriago...
Viscountess Astor accepted a challenge at a U.S. Army camp in Britain, told a bunch of dialect stories to the troops, presently struggled away with a prize...