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With the will of the late Vincent Astor (TIME, Feb. 16) waiting for probate, the temporary administrators of the estate petitioned Dutchess County, N.Y. surrogate's court for help on a little problem in part created by Philanthropist Astor's uncanny financial touch. The request: permission to invest earnings of the mammoth estate (at least $100 million), which is burgeoning at the rate of more than $200,000 a month...
...gilded age when sables were a princess' best friend, the nation's best place to buy sables was Manhattan's C. G. Gunther's Sons. Founded in 1820 by a German immigrant associated with Fur Trader John Jacob Astor, Gunther's not only combed Siberia for the finest sables, but bid in the London market for the finest ermine, sent its agents across Canada on the lookout for mink. Even men coveted the Gunther's label. Gunther's long operated the only men's fur department in Manhattan, offering coats made...
Just to see that all was fair and square, jowly Playboy John Jacob Astor III notified a New York court that he would exercise his right to inspect the will of his half-brother Vincent Astor (TIME, Feb. 16), who left $2,000,000 to his widow, bequests of $827,500 to friends and relatives, the bulk of a great estate (at least $100 million) to charity. To nightclubbing John, whose easy-go ways have barely dented an easy-come $70 million or so, Philanthropist Vincent left not one cent...
...Lady Astor? Behan as a boy revolutionary had to put up with the usual political naivete of his British fellow prisoners, who wanted to know about his bombing program: "Why didn't you do in some of the big pots . . . like that old Lady Astor?" There is the usual prison rough stuff where bullies must be identified and overthrown. Behan ("Paddy" to his Borstal pals) was good at both. His worst words are reserved not for the tough screws but for two unpleasant fellow prisoners called James and Dale: "I was no country Paddy from the middle...
...Story: An Autobiography, Astor...