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...Virginia-born Viscountess Astor, M.P., a shorthaired, winter jacket sounded like heaven. To Magistrate Harold McKenna at Bow Street Police Court, it sounded like a violation of rationing regulations. Lady Astor had written a friend in the U.S., asking him to bring the jacket, plus silk stockings, evening shoes, a dress collar and a white skirt...
...Cliveden, overlooking the tranquil Thames, Viscountess Astor, the Tory Party's Munich-era hostess and perennial mosquito, buzzed anathema. Some of it was against Paul Joseph Goebbels, who was gleefully repeating to Russia her statement that the Russians were fighting "not for us . . . for themselves" (TIME, Aug. 10). Most of it was against her fellow M.P.s, the British press and her own Plymouth constituency, who were hopping mad at Nancy Astor. M.P.s hunted loopholes in Commons privileges which would allow them to force Nancy to apologize publicly. The British press labeled her speech "a major political indiscretion." A trades...
...facial, the manager marched her into a private office and said: "I don't want to embarrass you, but after what happened in Hong Kong there is not a girl here who wants to give you a treatment. You ought to go away before you are insulted. . . ." Viscountess Kano left...
Secretary Eden, a model diplomat, said nothing with great graciousness. More forthright, after the meeting, was Virginia-born Viscountess Astor, a stampeding emancipatrix if not yet a diplomat. She snorted: "You can't convince a diplomat. We women made an unanswerable case. A woman is far more skillful than a man at wangling another man around, and that is what you want in a diplomat...
This time the heroine was Viscountess Astor. As acting mayor of Plymouth town, the trigger-tongued Lady from Virginia had spent the day showing King George and Queen Elizabeth around the city. She sat in the dining room of her house on the Hoe with Australia's Prime Minister Robert Gordon Menzies, with her 17-year-old dock-working nephew, James Brand (son of the distinguished banker Robert Henry Brand, who was last week in the U. S. buying food for Britain), and with an American correspondent. It was 8:30 p.m. Nancy Astor was tired, but she kept...