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Still in good voice, Lady Astor, who used to swap bitter words in the House of Commons with Winston Churchill, told a Manchester luncheon club that she'd had a change of heart: "We've never exactly been buddies. I never thought the time would come when I would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Prejudices & Propositions | 1/28/1952 | See Source »

Death of a Salesman--Frederic March overplays Willy Loman, but the rest of the cast is very good. Stanley Kramer's production at the Astor follows Arthur Miller's original dialogue pretty closely...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WEEKEND EVENTS | 1/26/1952 | See Source »

...London meeting of writers, actors and politicians gathered to launch a ?250,000 memorial fund for the late George Bernard Shaw, heard a few words from the Irishman's longtime friend Lady Astor, who objected to the fact that he had left the bulk of his estate to promote a phonetic alphabet (TIME, April 2). Said she: "It was a ridiculous will. Let us form a society to break it . . . I took intelligent people down to argue with him about it. I said to him, 'Leave me some money. In generations to come, people will say, "That...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 3, 1951 | 12/3/1951 | See Source »

...Streetcar Named Desire is as dynamic as the stage production. Vivian Leigh and Marlon Brando reenact the Tennessee Williams story on the Astor screen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WEEKEND EVENTS | 12/1/1951 | See Source »

...Manhattan's elegant St. Regis Hotel last week, a waiter carried two tomatoes on a tray into the suite of Mrs. Tillie Lewis of Stockton, Calif. She was aghast at the bill ($1). "You tell Vincent Astor,"* said Mrs. Lewis as she signed the check, "that these tomatoes cost him no more than 5? apiece, that's 1,000% profit." Said the waiter: "I guess you know your tomatoes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Tillie's Unpunctured Romance | 11/19/1951 | See Source »

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