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Jews are numbered quite conspicuously in science, medicine, the arts, entertainment. They are the middle-class or lower-middle-class retail merchants and manufacturers. Their names are not Morgan, Astor, Ford, Hunt, Rockefeller, Kennedy. MRS. S. SLATER Margate...
Died. Lord Astor of Hever, 85, patriarch of the Astor family's British branch, and between 1922 and 1959 publisher of the London Times; of heart disease; in Cannes, France. A great-great-grandson of the American fur trader who founded the family fortune, John Jacob Astor V began his 23-year career in the House of Commons in 1922, the same year he bought control of the Times. Elevated to the peerage in 1956, he eventually left Britain to escape heavy death duties...
...Serge Obolensky, 80, the Russian prince who became a U.S.-based patriarch of the international jet set; and Marilyn Fraser Wall, 44, a Grosse Pointe Farms, Mich., millionairess; she for the second time, he for the third (his marriages to the daughters of Czar Alexander II and John Jacob Astor ended in divorce); in Arlington...
...editor refused to remove a cartoon critical of British electrical workers who were staging a nationwide slowdown. Last year the Sunday Observer bowed to an ultimatum delivered midway in its press run and removed an anonymous letter criticizing union practices in the newspaper industry. It was, admitted Editor David Astor, "not a very courageous decision...
...more serious Tory Daily Telegraph and the business-oriented Financial Times have good survival prospects, but three great names in British journalism are in danger of disappearing. Faced with strong competition from Thomson's Sunday Times and the Sunday Telegraph, the Astor-owned Observer is given only a marginal chance to survive, as is the daily Guardian, which this week celebrates its 150th anniversary. Despite frantic efforts to revitalize its formula, the venerable London Times ran $2,400,000 in the red last year, bringing Lord Thomson's total losses since he bought the paper to a reported...