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Eloped. Lucille Langhanke Hawks Thorpe (Mary Astor), 30, redhaired, cinemactress; and Manuel Martinez del Campo, 25, Cambridge-educated Mexican sportsman, to whom she was introduced by Cinemactress Ruth Chatterton; to Yuma, Ariz...
...Three and one-half years ago, appreciating what a hammering the policies of his friend Franklin Roosevelt were receiving from the opposition press, Vincent Astor consented to finance a weekly magazine called Today, to hammer back. Editor was Mr. Roosevelt's close adviser, Dr. Raymond Moley...
Last week, Dr. Moley had long since ceased advising Mr. Roosevelt, who was no longer bothered by hammering; Today had about 100,000 circulation, little advertising, and small prospects of more; and Mr. Astor's publishing bill, shared by his railroading friend William Averell Harriman, stood at about...
...house, keeps a Ford coupe for going to work and a Packard convertible for pleasure, has a valet. He wears berets, blue and white checked bathrobes, blue linen beach suits. Last summer, his association with Barbara Stanwyck was the most publicized Hollywood romance of the year outside of Mary Astor's. Currently, the Stanwyck-Taylor partnership, one of the conventions of which was that each gave the other an expensive present every week, is thought to be cooling. Last week, Robert Taylor announced he would travel to Washington with Jean Harlow to watch the inaugural...
...first temporary exhibition, the Hochschild gallery showed a full size cement model of Augustus Saint-Gaudens' Diana of Madison Square Garden, and pulled from its archives drawings and plans of special interest to architects. There were preliminary drawings for the pompously domed Astor's Hotel, pride of lower Broadway in the 1830's. There were the competition drawings by Architects George Martin Huss and John Henry Buck for the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. One of the four finalists, the Huss & Buck Gothic cathedral was finally beaten out by the Romanesque plans of Heins & Lafarge...