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