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Died. Madeleine Force Astor Dick Fiermonte, 47; of heart disease; in Palm Beach, Fla. Her first husband, Colonel John Jacob Astor, went down with the Titanic April 15, 1912, while U. S.-bound from their honeymoon; four months later she bore his posthumous son, John Jacob Astor. Her second husband: William Karl Dick, New York socialite (divorced 1933). Her third: Enzo Fiermonte, Italian pugilist (divorced...
...Alley's current trend has been called "the double-entendre era" by Eli Oberstein, president of U. S. Record Corp. Mr. Oberstein's biggest hit (150,000 copies) is She Had to Go and Lose It at the Astor, ostensibly written by John Doe and Joe Doaques (actually Hugh Prince and Don Raye). A sister piece, She Really Meant to Keep It Till She Married, has sold 75,000 records for Mr. Oberstein. Not yet recorded is I'm a Virgin but I'm On the Verge, by ASCAP Member Paul Denniker...
...Manhattan sympathy front will all push forward together with a grand Allied Ball at the Hotel Astor, organized by Mrs. Howard Dietz, wife of the publicity chief of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer...
...malteds." He also invites faculty guest speakers, fills in with programs of popular records. Under the magisterial eye of Dartmouth President Ernest H. Hopkins, Broadcaster Dryfoos has to avoid records like Bruz Fletcher's Nympho-Dipso-Ego-Maniac, or She Had to Go and Lose It at the Astor. Keep it clean, the administration warns...
Arrested by immigration officers was Prince Nicholas Obolensky, chess player, art lecturer and man-about-Manhattan (third cousin of Vincent Astor's ex-brother-in-law, Prince Serge Obolensky), for overstaying his welcome...