On a Friday night, the St Regis' stodgy Astor Court restaurant was nearly empty.
Brooke was married to Vincent Astor (died 1959), an heir to the Astor fur and real estate fortune.
The technique made its premiere in three short films at Manhattan's Astor Place Theater in 1915.
This spring, DwellStudio is introducing the Astor, its first sofa featuring bolsters, one at each end.
The changes would have left him millions of dollars Ms. Astor had intended for charity.
's conviction on charges of forging Astor's signature on a change to her will.
"The best of these are incredible values for what they are, " said Astor's Mr. Ansari.
Morrissey was convicted of four felonies and a misdemeanor, including forgery and scheming to defraud Astor.
The paper is now owned by the Guardian, which has much of Mr Astor's liberal outlook.
The Astor purse that had kept it going through the lean times was now closed.
Mr Astor was a sharp editor and aware that the reader could easily be bored.
When David Schottenstein was building his apparel company, Astor and Black, he used multiple law firms.
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Morrissey, who also was convicted in 2009 of helping manipulate Ms. Astor on behalf of Mr. Marshall.
Another well-known inductee to the Hall Of Fame is David Astor, Observer editor from 1948 until 1975.
Astor was known as a great philanthropist and was a major donor to the New York arts scene.
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Under Mr Astor not even half the paper was given over to what might be called running news.
Though the Astor's bolsters stand alone, most designers still use the tube-shaped cushions as part of a pillow mix.
Smoke-tinged desserts more or less stayed at the campground until, in 1983, at Beechwood, the Astor family's Newport, R.
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One of the wealthiest men, John Jacob Astor, based his company, the American Fur Trading Company, in Mackinaw Island, Michigan.
He was a great-great-grandson of real estate and fur magnate John Jacob Astor, one of the United States' first multimillionaires.
In 1919, Lady Nancy Astor became the first woman member to take her seat in the British House of Commons.
He was a regular customer at the Astor Bar in Times Square, a notorious pick-up joint for off-duty military men.
Author Meryl Gordon, who has followed the Astor story for years, was in the courtroom when the jury returned its verdicts.
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Ms. Astor, the widow of a descendant of 19th-century magnate John Jacob Astor, died in 2007 at the age of 105.
Astor would approve of -- is that the elderly cannot be abused.
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The first woman to do so was Nancy, Lady Astor, elected for the Sutton division of Plymouth at a by-election in 1919.
Marshall's former attorney, Francis Morrissey, was also convicted of five counts relating to the case, including forgery and scheming to defraud Astor.
Mr Astor's comment was deflating: this wasn't what the Observer was about.
To paraphrase Winston Churchill to Lady Astor, Corporate employees have lots of parties during the holidays, you have passion for what you do.
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