Bill Astor knew these papers were missing. Stephen showed his hand in October.
Quotes about astor (6 Quotes)
Spectators came from far away. The Queen of Camelot, the Duchess of Astor the court architect, Philip of Glass (who has lately turned to stone) and the court's prose laureate, Brendan the Quill.
There are younger people moving into Astor now, and when I say younger I mean the younger baby boomers because they can afford now to buy property on the river.
Lady Nancy Astor Winston, if you were my husband, I'd put poison in your coffee. ... Nancy, if you were my wife, I'd drink it.
The Loews Astor, which closed in summer 2004, had been New York's largest single-screen movie theater. AEG Live put it through an extreme makeover. We had to gut it, ... We had this tremendous expanse without poles, so the sightlines were insanely good and the acoustics were great. But we had to build the whole stage box.
In 1969 I hung a Fifty Foot Brassiere on the US Treasury Building to poke fun at leering Wall Street workers and placed grotesque Statues of Liberty in Astor Place in the East Village as a war protest.