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...gossip to keep East Side telephones, from PLaza I to BUtterfield 8, buzzing for weeks. Items: ¶ Blimpish John Jacob Astor testified that in 1954 he had hired Broady to tap the phone in his Fifth Avenue home in the hope of learning some of the secrets of Gertrude Gretsch Astor, his wife at that time. Mrs. Astor, meanwhile, was watching her husband with her own private...
Last week the National Association of Music Merchants was holding its convention in Chicago's Palmer House and talking about the banjo boom. "In the second quarter of this year we doubled the banjo sales of the first quarter," said Ted McCarty, president of Gibson Inc. Said Fred Gretsch Jr., president of the Fred Gretsch Mfg. Co.: "The guitar players in New York have had to get banjos to play the popular tunes. They've cleaned out the pawnshops. They've cleaned out the stores. They've cleaned out the attics. Now they're ready...
Caught in legal crossfire from his two most recent wives, John Jacob Astor, 43, took the easiest way out. He conceded to the claim of wife No. 2, mousy blonde Gertrude Gretsch Astor, 31, that their Mexican divorce of last July was no good. This cleared the way for a Manhattan judge to hand Gertrude an easygoing stipend from Astor's easy-come $70 million-$2,500 a month, plus $7,500 for lawyers' fees. It also marooned Dolores ("Dolly") Pullman Astor, 26, very blonde Miami Beach divorcee who married Astor in August, ditched him in September, sued...
Divorced. By John Jacob Astor III, 42: Gertrude Gretsch Astor, 31, his second wife; after ten years of marriage (four years of separation), one child; in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico...
Married. John Jacob Astor III, 32, outsized second son of the late Colonel Astor (drowned on the Titanic in 1912); and Gertrude Gretsch, 21, Manhattan post-debutante; he for the second time; in Manhattan...