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...York families-the "Astorocracy"-throw open their gilded doors. Schuyler is allowed into the presence of Mrs. William Astor, contender for the post of society's grandest dame, and notices that her "dead-black hair is not entirely her own." He catches a party glimpse of John Jacob Astor III, "slow but agreeable, and much too red in the face." Wherever he goes, Schuyler is publicly deferential, as befits an aging favor seeker. Privately, this self-described "effete Parisian" fills his journal with barbed, often uproarious observations on this "vigorous, ugly, turbulent realm...
...magazine's name is gleaned from the Book of Genesis reference to the Mesopotamian town of Padan Aram. It was on the road to Padan Aram that Jacob had a vision of a ladder ascending to heaven...
...week-long will-she-or-won't-she drama was over. Citing what she described as "unjustifiable criticism" leveled at her husband, New York's Senator Jacob Javits, Marion Javits quit her $67,500-a-year job as a public relations consultant for Iran's national airline. Her decision obviously relieved the Senator, who is both a ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and a leading advocate of U.S. support for Israel. But some feminists, among them Ms. magazine's Gloria Steinem, thought that the conflict-of-interest problem in the Javits household might...
...flap in the household of New York's senior Senator Jacob Javits was rapidly becoming something of a political soap opera. When the story of his wife Marion's $67,500-a-year job representing Iran's national airline for a Manhattan public relations firm first broke two weeks ago, Husband Jack, 71, gamely allowed that his wife, 51, made "independent judgments" about her professional life; he brushed aside charges that her job compromised his integrity as a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and a staunch supporter of Israel. But last week at a closed...
...Christmas season seems no time for churchly bloodletting. Rock-ribbed conservative President Jacob A.O. Preus, 55, of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod has decided against ousting one of the district presidents (rough equivalent of a bishop) who insist on recognizing the ordinations of graduates of the rebel liberal school known as "Seminex." Last July the church's convention authorized Preus to dump dissident district presidents 60 days before they were up for reelection. Herman Neunaber of the Southern Illinois District was the first to reach such a deadline. But last week Preus chose "counseling and brotherly admonition" for Neunaber...