Word: vincent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Director. When the Metropolitan Opera was organized 52 years ago, William Astor got himself Box No. 7 on the left wing of the Golden Horseshoe. Son John Jacob and Grandson Vincent successively inherited it. Last week handsome Mrs. Vincent Astor, who has done good work as a money-raiser for the Philharmonic-Symphony, was elected a Metropolitan director, the third woman on the board.* Manager Johnson: "We have won a great victory...
Nonplussed Paris dinner guests of Mrs. Laurence Vincent Benét, U. S. wife of the Managing Director of La Societe Hotchkiss et Cie. (machine guns), aunt-in-law of the Poets Benét, reported that between cocktails and soup Hostess Benet served each female guest with a cotton puff on a silver waiter and a brief note: "Please dispose of your lipstick. ... I love and value my linen...
Artist Clara Thomas became interested in art by looking into some of her husband's books on falconry. She has since painted office walls for Vincent Astor, Percy Rockefeller, Robert Rutherford McCormick, William Ziegler, the royal suite in London's Grosvenor House. Mother of two children, 17 and 12, a fair, blue-eyed little woman with an even smile, she looks scarcely 30 at 40. She likes stag parties at which she is the only woman, rides well, works hard, hunts...
...Newark Airport the private car which the pair had expected did not turn up. A fellow passenger obligingly motored them to Vincent Astor's Manhattan hotel, the swank St. Regis. That evening General Johnson watched Fisticuffer Joe Louis pummel Fisticuffer Primo Carnera at the Yankee Stadium. At a luncheon next noon the General was initiated into the Circus Saints & Sinners Club, where he promised to "help the needy circus man" (cautiously muttering, "this is unofficial"), was treated with a shower of popcorn, decorated with a plug hat and a paper medallion certifying him a BIRD TRAINER, presented with a duck...
Discredited though Mr. Mitchell was, he had touched on one issue which may rise from the over-ailed Midwest to plague President Roosevelt in 1936-his intimacy with Vincent Astor and Mr. Astor's interest in I. M. M. Still unmindful or unworried about the hazard in spite of his warnings from his own political pulse-takers, President Roosevelt went out of his way last week to repeat that he favored the I. M. M. deal...