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John Jacob Astor III, globular 35-year-old great-great-grandson of the original, was recuperating on his New Jersey estate from a case of measles...
...London, Lady Astor, as determinedly dry as the late "Pussyfoot" Johnson, auctioned off some gin to raise funds for a memorial to a friend. She peddled the treacherous stuff at $60 a bottle. But her conscience was presumably at ease, since she began her pitch with a rousing temperance lecture...
Hoving was expanding by shrewd use of his capital-$2.6 million from such bigwig friends as Vincent Astor and CBS's William S. Paley, and a $12 million stock issue. He had paid $10.5 million for Bonwit Teller, Inc., then sold the store's buildings to the Equitable Life Assurance Society for $6.3 million and rented them back for $320,000 a year. He put some of that money into a new $2.2 million Chicago branch which he sold to Prudential Insurance Co. of America, and leased back. Another $800,000 was spent transforming Boston's historic...
William Waldorf Astor's lowdown on his mother, Lady Astor: "Mother likes to insult people and goad them, but if she finds they pay no attention or simply don't get angry, she stops...
Most of the correspondents were lunching in their headquarters at the newly rebuilt Hotel Astor, across the street from the presidential palace, when they heard the news of the assault on Gaitán. They expected trouble and, within 30 minutes, got it. The Army took over their hotel as a strong point to defend the palace, and Dozier spent his first beleaguered night trying to sleep while two soldiers banged away at snipers from his bedroom window...