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...embittered Japanese began operating a maverick transmitter from Shanghai's Astor House Hotel, which set up a terrible clatter whenever Alcott began to broadcast. Alcott told about it. The Japanese denied it. Alcott told the number of the hotel room where it was housed. Finally the Japanese turned their transmitter over to some Shanghai Nazis. Nowadays all Japanese ships in China waters have instructions to turn on their radio buzzers when Alcott goes on the air, but even when combined with land station jamming, the din they set up is not overly effective except in downtown Shanghai...
...daughter of the late Grand Duke Paul of Russia, ex-wife of Parisian Couturier Lucien Lelong, wife of Noel Coward's business manager, John Chapman Wilson, took out first papers for U. S. citizenship. White-haired, U. S.-born Lady Ribblesdale, 70, ex-wife of Colonel John Jacob Astor, mother of Vincent Astor, grande dame of international society, renounced her title, once more became a citizen of her native...
...admiration for Gandhi's saintliness when he was living in a mud hut next Gandhi's. As a firm believer in closer U. S.-British trade relations, he resigned from the Cabinet when Liberals split from the Government, over trade policy. As a close friend of Lady Astor's, he was damned as a member of the Cliveden Set during the appeasement crisis, like other members denied that there was such...
Fields: "You can't get away with that stuff todav." Published in London was A Kitchen Goes to War, ration-time cookery book designed to avoid waste, achieve "variety and a well-balanced diet." Some contributors: Viscountess Astor (Haddock Fin-landais); Sir Malcolm Campbell (How to Make the Best of Your Bacon Ration); Viscountess Halifax (Savoury Haddock); H. W. ("Bunny") Austin (Tomato and Asparagus Bundles); Sir Hugh Walpole
...being too loud. Least hackneyed of its exhibits is a monster bicycle ballet; best of its Arthur Schwartz tunes is Jenny Lind's melting How Can I Ever Be Alone?; most atmospheric thing are its sets, reproducing such bygones as Federal Hall, Barnum's Museum, the old Astor House. On opening night wind & rain turned the stage into a Great Wet Way, drenched hundreds of bright costumes, ripped Lillian Russell's magnificent white-plumed hat right off her pretty head...