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Died. Viscount Astor, 58, son of Virginia-born Lady Astor, Britain's first woman to sit in Parliament and hostess of the sparkling intellectual "Cliveden Set" at the family estate in the '30s, himself a onetime M.P., who rented a cottage to Osteopath Stephen Ward in 1956 and thereby spawned a demimonde that featured Call Girl Christine Keeler until it collapsed amid the Profumo scandal of 1963; of an apparent heart attack; in Nassau, the Bahamas...
With the end of the war came in creased rumblings of independence, and with them the appointment of Nehru as acting Prime Minister. Nehru's wife had died in 1936, and he summoned his beloved Indu (meaning Moon) to come to Delhi as his official hostess. Over her husband's strong objections, Indira took the boys and set out for New Delhi on a trip that was to lead her to the highest councils of government. (She separated from her husband in 1947; he died of a heart attack...
...former Tokyo bar hostess, it was indeed an impressive homecoming reception-an official welcoming delegation at the airport, scores of jostling newsmen, photographers, television crews-the works. But after all, beautiful, 25-year-old Ratna Sari Dewi has come up in the world since that day in 1959 when Indonesia's fun-loving President Sukarno decided to make her his third wife...
Champagne & Candlelight. Last week the Atlantic Coast Line's Florida Special began its daily winter-season runs between New York and Miami, offering such unusual amenities as free champagne and dinner by candlelight. Each train has television, a telephone, and a recreation car run by an airline-style hostess who models resort wear, leads games and shows movies. The Pennsylvania Railroad last month began a low-key advertising campaign for its all-Pullman Broadway Limited between New York and Chicago, which now averages only 85 passengers per trip. Sample: "The Broadway Limited isn't a Wingjet, a Jumpjet...
...reported the Post, "by strangling himself with his wife's brassiere. Rescued just in time by one of his fellow workers, the tailor fled out of the door with the black lace brassiere between his teeth." What made him do it? "He had become engaged to a bar hostess," the Post concluded, "who was endowed with a most enviable bosom. However, after several months, he found his bride-to-be gradually diminishing in the curves he admired most. One day he saw her entering a house, from which she emerged with her bosom once again restored to their former...