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Born. To Lady Astor. U. S.-born Member of Parliament: her first granddaughter, first child of her only daughter Phyllis and the 26th Lord Willoughby de Eresby; in London...
Asked to address a luncheon for 450 welfare workers in Manhattan's Hotel Astor last week, Mrs. Rockefeller spent a fortnight writing the first public speech of her life, a gravely caustic lecture on the obligations of wealth. Excerpts...
...knew them well. Charles Darwin visited them in his famed voyage of the Beagle. Ever since they have been a special delight for scientists, nature fakirs and wanderlustful millionaires. Within recent years such celebrities as William Beebe, Col. Theodore Roosevelt, John Barrymore, Gifford Pinchot, William K. Vanderbilt and Vincent Astor have visited the islands...
Charles Dana Gibson, a huge man with a bald head, an eagle beak and a Gladstone collar, has admitted that his Gibson Girl was a composite picture of the three famed Langhorne sisters of Virginia. Sister Irene, Artist Gibson married. Sister Nancy married Lord Astor, now sits in the House of Commons. Sister Nora is the present Mrs. "Lefty" Flynn. The Gibson Man wearing the stiff straw hat and a high collar up to his bulbous chin was a fairly accurate portrait of Richard Harding Davis...
Proud would Samuel Brearley have been if he could have returned to Earth last week for a banquet at Manhattan's Hotel Astor. Proud were the 1,000 handsome, well-dressed people who gathered there to celebrate the 50th birthday of the famed Manhattan girls' school which he started in a small brownstone house on East 45th Street. They were proud that Brearley had attracted the daughters of Cleveland H. Dodge, Herbert L. Satterlee, Oswald Garrison Villard, Henry Fairfield Osborn, Felix M. Warburg, Owen D. Young. They were proud that Brearley had schooled such distinguished personages as Dean...