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...Regretted that the first woman M. P. remains so incurably trivial a headline-snatcher when Lady Astor, showing the neat ankle of a Langhorne of Virginia, introduced the topic of her openwork silk stockings. After publicly regretting that she has to import them from the U. S. and pay a stiff British duty, the Noble Lady was informed by Dr. Edward L. Burgin, Parliamentary Secretary of the Board of Trade, that she can "Buy British" openwork silk stockings...
...Confident that he was pleasing Lady Astor, Dr. Burgin then drew further attention to her neat ankle by remarking, "I shall be glad to present the Noble Lady with a British-made pair of the best openwork silk stockings, if she will promise to wear them in this House...
...young matrons whom a Japanese would recognize by name are Mrs. John Jacob Astor 3rd and Countess (Barbara Hutton) Haugwitz. Last week Japanese politely welcomed announcements that both are with child. But wild was Japanese joy when the Imperial Household Ministry issued a proclamation that Her Majesty the Empress Nagako will be brought to bed next November for the sixth time...
...Newark Airport the private car which the pair had expected did not turn up. A fellow passenger obligingly motored them to Vincent Astor's Manhattan hotel, the swank St. Regis. That evening General Johnson watched Fisticuffer Joe Louis pummel Fisticuffer Primo Carnera at the Yankee Stadium. At a luncheon next noon the General was initiated into the Circus Saints & Sinners Club, where he promised to "help the needy circus man" (cautiously muttering, "this is unofficial"), was treated with a shower of popcorn, decorated with a plug hat and a paper medallion certifying him a BIRD TRAINER, presented with a duck...
...from being retired, Organist Woodman last week was the happy centre of attention in a great throng of his colleagues in Manhattan's Hotel Astor. In session was the 14th general convention of the American Guild of Organists which he helped found in 1896. To its 1,000 delegates he declared: "Modern music is going crazy. There is too much jazz, and jazz means dissonance. The standard of organ playing has greatly improved. The higher type music of such modern American composers as Horatio Parker, Arthur Foote and George W. Chadwick has superseded the old church music of comparatively...