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...movies go, New York is definitely having a substandard weekend. Now features at the big houses are American Guerilla in the Philippines (Astor), starring Tyrone Power and Michelin Prelle; King Solomon's Mines (Radio City Music Hall), with Deborah Kerr and Stewart Granger; Robert Taylor in Devil's Doorway (Capitol); All About Eve (Roxy); and J. Arthur Rank's Prelude to Fame (52nd Street Trans...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Glittering Gotham Beckons to Pleasure Seekers | 11/10/1950 | See Source »

After a ten-minute hospital visit with George Bernard Shaw, who is still mending, Virginia-born Lady Astor decided that his other friends were being too friendly, should pray for him but leave him alone. After all, said she: "His wife left him to me and I promised I'd always look after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Thoughts & Afterthoughts | 10/9/1950 | See Source »

Died. Mme. Mary Astor Paul Allez, 61, onetime Philadelphia society belle whose wartime services (directing espionage, harboring Allied airmen, transmitting messages to U.S. agents), as a member ("Pauline") of the French underground, won her the U.S. Medal of Freedom and a Chevalier's ribbon in France's Legion of Honor; of cancer; in Paris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 7, 1950 | 8/7/1950 | See Source »

Addressing 400 fashion experts at a Fashion Group luncheon last week in Manhattan's Astor Hotel, Allied Stores Corp.'s B. Earl Puckett was stern. "Basic utility," said he, "cannot be the foundation of a prosperous apparel industry . . . We must accelerate obsolescence." Reminding his listeners that 1948's apparel sales had been exceptionally good because of that year's one-shot "New Look," Puckett added that what was needed was a New Look every year. "Money that was not spent for soft lines . . . was not spent on other lines of merchandise, but was saved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FASHION: Brave New Look | 7/3/1950 | See Source »

Married. Marylyn Hauoli Thorpe, 18, daughter of Cinemactress Mary (Dodsworth) Astor and second husband Dr. Franklyn P. Thorpe, whose 1936 courtroom squabble over her custody became a sexy tabloid sensation; and Frank John Roh Jr., 27, University of Southern California graduate student (drama); in Sherman Oaks, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 26, 1950 | 6/26/1950 | See Source »

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