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...retired at Lady Astor's death in 1964. The lady had been born Nancy Langhorne of Danville, Va., the spirited daughter of a horse auctioneer. After divorcing her first husband, a Boston sporting man and alcoholic, Nancy took her young son to England. There, in 1906, she married Waldorf Astor. He was the great-great-grandson of John Jacob Astor I, the German immigrant who made a staggering fortune in the American fur trade and New York real estate. His grandson, William Waldorf Astor, a failed conservative politician, took the family name and fortune to England...
With the Washington ceremonies behind them, the imperial couple will fly to Cape Cod, where Hirohito, a respected marine biologist, will spend an afternoon at the famed Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Next stop: New York City. The Emperor and his wife will stay in the Waldorf-Astoria's eight-room presidential suite and hold court in a gold-screened "throne room" set up in the Waldorf s grand ballroom. Also on their calendar: a meeting with General Douglas MacArthur's widow Jean, who lives at the Waldorf...
...seemed an occasion for celebration. The TV lights and cameras were all assembled one night last week in a crowded 40th-floor suite in Manhattan's Waldorf Towers. Reporters scrambled for position as New York's stocky Governor Hugh Carey and New York City's diminutive Mayor Abraham Beame marched in and took seats at a small antique table and announced their triumph. After days of negotiation, said Carey, the two had finally worked out a new method to raise the $2 billion that New York City must have to stave off bankruptcy through November...
...banks-notably Chase Manhattan, First National City and Morgan Guaranty Trust-which were being asked for new loans, took another look at the familiar figures in the budget and the familiar figures administering them and sadly shook their heads. With that, the solution so happily announced at the Waldorf collapsed...
...popular than it is today. Though his artistic, almost romantic style of play drew awards for "brilliancy" and won him the U.S. Open Championship in 1955, he was never able to make a living from the game and supplemented his tournament and chess-studio earnings by working as a Waldorf-Astoria busboy and a New York cabby...