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...vague explanation given the public was that Editor Garvin and his employer Viscount Astor had parted company over "editorial policy." The Grand Old Man of British journalism cagily commented: "For the first time for 34 years I can take my dog for a walk on a Friday instead of staying indoors to write my article. . . ." London reports said that Garvin had quit because the Observer was being turned over to Lord Astor's son Francis David Langhorne, socialist, Laborite, ex-factory worker and now captain of Marines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Garvin Gets Out | 3/16/1942 | See Source »

...Supporting actor: Donald Crisp (for Mr. Morgan, in How Green); actress: Mary Astor (for Sandra Kovac, in The Great...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Politicos | 3/9/1942 | See Source »

...Lady Astor, presiding at a business women's meeting in London, put her best foot too far forward, slipped off the platform's edge, fell flat on her back on the floor. Scurriers-to-her-rescue: Anthony J. Drexel Biddle, Sir Earle Christmas Grafton Page, Australian member of the War Council. Lady Astor went on with the meeting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Politicos | 3/9/1942 | See Source »

...Vincent Astor, 50, millionaire yachting companion of President Roosevelt, went on active duty as a full commander in the Third Naval District (around New York City). The Navy said his duties were secret...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Spats & Raps | 3/2/1942 | See Source »

Married. Virginia Middleton French, sister of Mrs. John Jacob Astor; and William Force Dick, son of the late Madeleine Force Astor Dick; in Manhattan. The bride's father is Francis Ormond French, blue-blood maverick who worked in 1923 as a cab driver, applied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 29, 1941 | 12/29/1941 | See Source »

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