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Divorced. By Michael Langhorne Astor, 52, son of the late second Viscount Astor, and former Conservative member of Parliament: Patricia Astor, 38, daughter of Sir Bede Clifford, onetime (1942-46) governor of Trinidad and Tobago; on uncontested charges of adultery; after six years of marriage, no children; in London...
Carry On. NBC offered Dear Mr. Gable, a brisk review of the multifaceted life of the longtime king of Holly wood. There was footage of Gable with Mary Astor in Red Dust (1932), scenes from his triumph with Grace Kelly 22 years later in Mogambo. And there were shots of Gable as an Air Corps Captain in World...
Divorced. John Jacob Astor III, 56, portly playboy and great-great-grandson of the tycoon, by Dolores ("Dolly") Pullman Astor, 39, his third wife, after 131 years of marriage (131 years of separation); on uncontested grounds of extreme cruelty; in Miami...
...York, to disgorge bevies of international beauties every bit as dazzling as any courtesan painted by Watteau or Fragonard. Their names tumbled out of Burke 's Peerage, the Almanack de Gotha and the Social Register. From London, there was the Maharajah and Maharani of Jaipur, Lady Astor, and the young dandy Lord Lichfield; from Madrid, Count and Countess de Romanones-Quintanilla, and from Rome, Donna Allegra Caracciolo. Paris sent Princess Peggy d'Arenberg and Dubonnet-Maker André Dubonnet; from Manhattan flew Marylou Whitney (with a sequined bee on her bonnet), along with Newport's Jimmy...
Daggers Between the Teeth. Still and all, it is a strange life for a man whose first two wives were Czar Alexander II's daughter Catherine and Vincent Astor's daughter Alice. Nonetheless, Obolensky, a gallant bachelor since 1932, continues to serve as a prized escort from Newport to Palm Beach. Age seems to have slowed him not a bit. He can still dance the night away, on festive occasions leaps up on a table and performs the lezginka with flaming daggers between his teeth...