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...York American proclaimed the news of history's most famous nautical disaster in typical fashion. Right below a banner headline that announced the sinking of the British luxury liner Titanic off the coast of Newfoundland, the American sadly told the world of the drowning of John Jacob Astor, prominent financier and pillar of New York society. Subsequent paragraphs of the story dealt with the equally shattering deaths of Archibald Butt, President Taft's military advisor, and Harry Elkins Widener of library fame. The news of the 1499 others who perished in the numbing North Atlantic that night--most of them...
...Contributor Kenneth Harris. "Do you know anyone with a few million to spare?" Harris asked. The Observer, it turned out, had been losing as much as $1 million a year and recently laid off one-third of its staff. The paper's owners, heirs of the second Lord Astor, were willing to hand over control to the right investor. Cater telephoned the Aspen Institute, which reached Anderson, and Anderson invited Observer Proprietor and former Editor David Astor to bring the paper's books with him to Los Angeles. Last week, ten days after Cater's serendipitous supper...
...Network. The Observer has lost much of its vigor in recent years under Editor David Astor, who stepped aside last year. ("The editor's indecision is final," an Astor deputy once quipped.) But the paper is still firmly plugged into the Old Boy network of Oxbridge dons, senior civil servants and other privileged subjects who have helped run Britain -and the Observer-for decades. Ownership of the Observer will give Anderson a box seat in that select circle, a valuable asset in a business as politically sensitive as oil. Indeed, Anderson has announced plans for an "international advisory council...
...Among them: Marisa Berenson, Carol Charming, Mrs. Gianni Agnelli, Mrs. Vincent Astor, Lauren Bacall, Raquel Welch, Ali MacGraw, Mrs. William Mc-Cormick Blair Jr., Mrs. Charles Revson, Liza Minnelli, Lee Radziwill and her sister Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, who, at her first husband's inauguration, wore a Halston's pillbox hat-backward. Despite Jackie's mistake, the hat became a rage and helped make Halston famous...
Bedazzled by Schuyler's fatherly connection with royalty, the best New York families-the "Astorocracy"-throw open their gilded doors. Schuyler is allowed into the presence of Mrs. William Astor, contender for the post of society's grandest dame, and notices that her "dead-black hair is not entirely her own." He catches a party glimpse of John Jacob Astor III, "slow but agreeable, and much too red in the face." Wherever he goes, Schuyler is publicly deferential, as befits an aging favor seeker. Privately, this self-described "effete Parisian" fills his journal with barbed, often uproarious observations...