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Harlan's miners and mountaineers were astounded, and Circuit Court Judge Astor Hogg just had time to get his jaws ajar and allow it was "the beginning of a new era" when the Beach boys, who dabble in bootlegging, drove into downtown Harlan, the county seat, and fired six bullets into 45-year-old Avery Hensley, a former cop. In the words of Kentucky's standard indictment form, Avery Hensley "did then & there die." Six hours later, Avery's stepson Joe Hensley was sitting in a parked car outside the bus terminal when two Harlan policemen...
Meet the Press (Sun. 4 p.m., NBC). Guest: Lady Astor...
...Hours is a tense melodrama at the Astor, Times Square, about a man on the edge of a tall building wondering when to jump. The Capitol, Broadway and 51st presents a new Rudyard Kipling all-star epic, Soldiers Three, with Stewart Granger, Walter Pidgeon, David Niven, and Robert Newton. Teresa gets its world premiere Thursday at the 52nd Street and Madison. Tans-Lux replacing, the British thriller, Seven Days to Noon...
...daughter of Hetty Green, "The Witch of Wall Street" (1835-1916); in Manhattan. As a girl, she often lived in shabby flats, cooked and sewed to save pennies for her millionaire mother. She grew up an ungainly recluse, usually dressed in black, at 38 married 57-year-old Matthew Astor Wilks, great-grandson of Millionaire John Jacob Astor I. Wilks left her a mere million to add to nearly $50 million from her mother, $43 million from her brother. Like her mother, she spent little on herself, less on others, multiplied her fortune through stocks and real estate. She left...
People's eight months at Newsweek had begun in argument: Malcolm Muir thought the little magazine looked like a moneymaker and should be pushed, but Board Chairman Vincent Astor disliked its low-grade formula. When People tried slicing the cheesecake thinner, circulation dropped and Astor yielded. Then an impending paper shortage loomed, and everybody agreed People should...