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...madly hatted, picture-pretty Austine ("Bootsie") McDonnell Cassini Hearst, 28, the new byline was to be the least of many changes. This week the newlyweds will settle down, after their fashion. They will spend half of each week in the Waldorf Towers in Manhattan, where Bill Hearst publishes his father's Journal-American and the American Weekly, and the other half in a house on swank Decatur Place in Washington, where Bootsie will pursue her career...
...York Daily Mirror was up at 7, to scan his own paper and his opposition over a cup of coffee. He checked in at the office by 9, got up to St. Patrick's in time to cover Babe Ruth's funeral, walked over to the Waldorf-Astoria men's bar for a reminiscent lunch with Mourners Leo Durocher and Mel Ott. Back at the office, he wrote the funeral story (see above), took 35 minutes to peck out a syndicated column that goes to 600 newspapers, and wrestled his first edition to press. That night...
...Waldorf-Astoria suite, music critics gaped eagerly at Columbia's new LP Microgroove record-which might soon make present record changers obsolete. By tripling the number of grooves on a record (from approximately 100 to 300 to the inch) and by cutting turntable speed more than half (from 78 to 33 ⅓-r.p.m.), Columbia had produced a record that would play 45 minutes, include an entire symphony or concerto on one record. Columbia had a first batch of 101 Vinylite records ready (at $4.85 for a 12-inch classical and $2.85 for a 10-inch popular record with...
...gold-draped stage in the Waldorf-Astoria's grand ballroom, the shiny new Ford makes its bow this week. It is a sleek, square-cut car only 5 ft. 3 in. high and completely redesigned from grill to luggage compartment. With seats eight inches wider than the 1948 models, more luggage space, 20 square feet of windows and a new-fangled heating and ventilating unit, the 1949 Ford has an optional six-or eight-cylinder motor. The traditional (and hard riding) transverse springs have been replaced by coil springs in the front, leaf springs parallel to the frame...
...William Waldorf Astor's lowdown on his mother, Lady Astor: "Mother likes to insult people and goad them, but if she finds they pay no attention or simply don't get angry, she stops...