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...Queen of Spades,though lavishly photographed, is only as good as a not-so-hot Tchaikovsky opera can be; at the Exeter (KE 6-7067), Robert Dhery plums not very tantalizing depths in a movie which is as good as a movie about a car can be; at the Astor (LI 2-5030), EI Cidstars(unbeknownst to itself: it has pretensions to being as good as a movie about EI Cid could be) magnificent Spanish scenery; at the Orpheum (LI 2-3491), Sergeants 3 is as good as routine tastelessness and flatness always is (good like soma), despite the most...
...supply cakes with candles when clients' children have an 18th birthday, advise on everything from selecting schools and planning careers to buying horses. Offering such friendly service has proved to be highly profitable for U.S. Trust-particularly because its customers, past and present, include such names as Rockefeller, Astor, Vanderbilt, and Whitney...
...reached into the outside banking world to hire as president and his eventual successor tall, handsome Hoyt Ammidon (Yale, '32). Ammidon was a 20-year veteran at New York's Central Hanover Bank and Trust Co., and for five years personal-investment manager for Multimillionaire Vincent Astor. Last week, right on schedule. Strong retired at 65, and Ammidon, 52, stepped up to chairman and chief executive officer. In as president went First Vice President Charles W. Buek, 50 (Yale...
...Liaisons Dangerouses (Astor) is an offense against taste, a baldly commercial celebration of the Gallic religion of disgust. At the same time it is a wickedly funny comedy of promiscuities à la franqaise. The mixture seems sure to produce a succès de scandale...
...Aircraftman Shaw, he spent ten years in uniform, recording the unending obscenity of barracks life in The Mint, racing motorcycles for relaxation, developing high-speed crash boats for air-sea rescue operations. In 1935 he left the service. "I would not take any job at all," he wrote Lady Astor. "There is something broken in the works, as I told you: my will, I think." Five days later, on May 13, 1935, Lawrence swerved his motorcycle to avoid two boys, fatally crashed into a ditch. Lawrence's bust was put beside that of Nelson and Wellington in the crypt...