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...friends were often famous, like Dorothy Thompson and Clare Boothe Luce. As she recalls life with the smart set, Hobson falls into a modish, woman's magazine tone in which even problems sound like boons. In 1942 her idea of dire indebtedness was owing rent to the Vincent Astor offices for her East Side apartment and a clothing tab to Bergdorf s. For all her social concern, political events are sometimes invoked as if they were backdrops for her personal dramas, as in a rendezvous with Ingersoll: "When he arrived, my rehearsed words went out the window...
...establishment of the South Street Seaport Museum, led by Advertising Executive Peter Stanford, and supported by Shipping Magnate Jakob Isbrandtsen. The pooling of resources from the private sector helped make the institution more than a collection of artifacts. Among the principal contributors: Laurance Rockefeller, the Astor Foundation, RCA, Exxon and Time Inc. The museum, now headed by Christopher Lowery, began to acquire ancient real estate along with old vessels and naval paraphernalia...
...find them going north on Astor Street back up toward Lincoln Park. They seem to have been travelling in S-type patterns, constantly changing their direction to avoid the police...
...Chief Henry Grunwald, who observed that TIME and Newsweek have been "inevitably linked as a fated pair, like Macy's and Gimbels, Coke and Pepsi, Hertz and Avis." Former Newsweek Editor in Chief Osborn Elliott recalled the day in 1961 when Philip Graham bought the magazine from Vincent Astor's estate. "All he had was a personal check," reported Elliott. "He said later he had never written a check for that amount of money and didn't know if he should put zero zero cents after the 2 million" for the down payment. Speculation was that...
...filthy rich wind up; carpenters, grips, security men, sound technicians and other behind-the-scenes retirees outnumber the luminaries, but the list of recognizable retirees is not as brief as one might expect, given the salaries in the business they have left behind. Mary Astor is here. Donald Crisp died here. Norma Shearer is here. Eddie ("Rochester") Anderson died here. Regis Toomey is here. Ellen Corby, the grandmother on The Waltons, just moved in. Stepin Fetchit is here. Bruce Cabot, Chester Conklin, Larry Fine (one of the Three Stooges), Edmund Lowe, Arthur O'Connell, Herbert Marshall and Mitchell Leisen...