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...Viscountess Furness, twin sister of Mrs. Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt* and aunt of Mrs. Stokowski, flew over from Britain for a month's stay in the U.S., said she was coming back later to settle for good. She put up for a while with Sister Gloria at her Manhattan apartment...
Lady Astor finally got back home to Old Virginia, and from there was heading for Florida (not to see Winston Churchill-"That would be a busman's holiday"*). She was taking Lord Astor to a warm climate "to restore him." Explained the 66-year-old Viscountess: "Everybody wants to be a young widow-they go like hot cakes, but nobody wants to be an old widow...
...Virginia-born Viscountess, 25 years an M.P., was home for a two-months' visit. The passage had been rough, the ship six days late, and for ten days, said Lady Astor, she "read the Bible steadily . . . gives you the proper perspective...
...reporter brought up the Labor Government. "What Labor Government," snapped the Conservative Viscountess. "Why, England is still full of lords and ladies...
...coat from the U.S., she thought she might bag one this trip, "if I have any gentlemen friends." Newsreel men handed her a canned speech to read. "That's the worst speech I ever heard," said she. Cameramen took closeups. "We never did this to Mrs. Roosevelt," the Viscountess protested. "No other country in the world behaves like America!" At interview's end she moved off, cried loudly as she departed, laughing: "Goodbye, you horrors-you horrors...