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Married. Dark, beauteous Mary B. Gushing, 34, daughter of the late great brain surgeon, Harvey Gushing, elder sister of the former Mrs. James Roosevelt; and her longtime friend, Manhattan Real-Estate Tycoon William Vincent Astor, 48, inheritor of $65,000,000 from his father, John Jacob Astor; she for the first time, he for the second; quietly, in Easthampton, L. I. Divorced three weeks ago in Cody, Wyo. by first-wife Helen Dinsmore Huntington, 46, Groom Astor and bride last week sailed for a honeymoon aboard his $1,000,000 Nourmahal, on which he often entertained his Dutchess County neighbor...
Divorced. William Vincent Astor, 48, Manhattan real-estate tycoon, yacht host to President Roosevelt, and socialite son of the late (Titanic) Colonel John Jacob Astor; by Helen Dinsmore Huntington Astor, 46, patroness of many a musical and philanthropic venture; in Cody, Wyo. Charging mental cruelty after 26 years of married life, Mrs. Astor testified: "Mr. Astor is intent on his business enterprises and we seldom see each other...
...long they will stay in Bermuda the Windsors said was "indefinite." The New York Sun said the $1,000,000 Astor yacht Nourmahal might take them to Nassau. The British liner Britannic took 15 more pieces of Windsor luggage to Manhattan last week, whence they will be shipped to Nassau, but the Duke was said to have had to abandon in France the bulk of his official luggage, trunkfuls of uniforms and cases of stars and orders...
...Member of Parliament and of the editorial board of Punch (funny weekly). Commanding his yacht Water Gipsy he helps patrol the Thames, boasts that all members of his crew are ready for instant action at all times. To prove this, during dinner on board one night, he barked: "Lady Astor overboard!" The steward put down a dish he was passing, plunged over the rail...
...from Florida after MacArthur's uncle, prankish Cinemauthor Charles MacArthur, offered them a trip to California if they got to Manhattan on $2 and wangled free lodging from a top-flight New York hotel. After a week of catch-as-catch-can meals and flophouse nights, the Hotel Astor offered them a room. Said Boyd France to inquiring newshawks: "How vivid a story of our adventure do you want? I got an imagination...