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Most U.S. correspondents were in the Astor Hotel and they had a grandstand view of the fighting, in which 300 died. Cabled TIME Correspondent Tom Dozier: "Outside the hotel lie the bodies of two men and one woman who climbed atop one of the tanks that moved through the mob to defend the Presidential Palace. Government riflemen lying prone in the street popped them off at short range. One fell beneath the tank's treads and his head was crushed. It is not a pretty sight...
...Atlanta, Margaret (Gone With the Wind) Mitchell and visiting lecturer Lady Astor were introduced to each other, and quickly showed U.N. how. "You will never know how much that book meant to us," said Lady Astor, speaking for England. "Lady Astor, I hope the British will send over here more people like you," said Novelist Mitchell, "with the power to speak to the heart...
Born. To William Samuel Paley, 46, well-tailored board chairman and principal stockholder of the Columbia Broadcasting System, and Barbara Gushing Mortimer Paley, 31, perennially best-dressed daughter of the late, great brain surgeon Harvey Gushing, sister of Betsey Gushing Roosevelt Whitney and Mary Gushing Astor: their first child, his third,* her third, a son; in Manhattan. Name: William Gushing. Weight...
...Lady Astor, who at 68 still delights in teeing off on all & sundry, tried nine country-club holes in Atlanta, turned in a creditable...
...Printing House Square. When Barrington-Ward died in Tanganyika, nobody expected Casey to succeed him. Fleet Street rumors pointed to the Economist's brilliant Editor Geoffrey Crowther or the Times's Senior Assistant Editor Donald Tyerman (whom Tories consider too far left); Colonel the Hon. John Jacob Astor, who owns a controlling interest in the Times, couldn't get Crowther so didn't try, and needed Tyerman where he was. He decided to leave Casey...