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FIGHT FOR ASTOR ESTATE MIRRORS BATTLE 50 YEARS AGO Don Hogan Charles[Photo] Brooke Astor in 1996 with a portrait of her husband Vincent, who died in 1959. [Photo] Vincent Astor around 1910. His will was contested by his half brother, who blamed Mrs. Astor's influence. ... |
26th April 2009 | |
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IN WEAK RIVETS, A POSSIBLE KEY TO TITANIC'S DOOM For a decade, metallurgists studying the hulk of the Titanic have argued that the storied liner went down fast after hitting the iceberg because the ship's builder used substandard rivets that popped their heads and let tons of icy seawater rush in. More than 1,500 people died.Now, a team of scientists has moved into deeper waters, uncovering evidence in the builder's own archives of a deadly mix of great ambition and low quality iron that doomed the ship, which sank 96 years ago Tuesday. Historians say the riddle of the disaster has finally been solved.... |
14th April 2008 | |
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JOHN J. ASTOR 5TH, 79; SON OF BUILDER OF HOTEL John Jacob Astor 5th, a descendant of one of America's most fabled merchant princes, died yesterday at his home in Miami Beach. He was 79 years old. His death was reported by two of his cousins, R. Thornton Wilson, and Stephen Spencer,... |
27th June 1992 | |
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S. MARSHALL KEMPNER DEAD; LONGTIME INVESTMENT BANKER S. Marshall Kempner, an investment banker, died of congestive heart failure Saturday at his home in San Francisco. He was 88 years old. Mr. Kempner was a native of New York, where he began his career after graduating Phi Beta Kappa fro... |
4th August 1987 | |
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MARSHALL DREW Marshall Drew, a survivor of the Titanic, died Friday at Eastern Long Island Hospital in Greenport, L. I. He was 82 years old and lived in Westerly, L. I. Mr. Drew, who was born in Greenport, taught fine arts at Grover Cleveland High S... |
11th June 1986 | |
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JOHN RYERSON John Ryerson, an amateur golfer and one of last survivors of the sinking of the Titanic, died Tuesday at a nursing home in West Palm Beach, Fla. He was 87 years old. Mr. Ryerson was born in Chicago, a scion of the Ryerson steel fortune... |
24th January 1986 | |
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ETHEL BEANE, WHO SURVIVED TITANIC SINKING, DEAD AT 90 ROCHESTER, Sept. 19 (AP)---Ethel Beane, who survived the sinking of the liner Titanic in 1912, died over the weekend in a Rochester nursing home. She was 90 years old. The Titanic sank the night of April 14 on its maiden voyage from So... |
20th September 1983 | |
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PEGGY GUGGENHEIM IS DEAD AT 81; KNOWN FOR MODERN ART COLLECTION By The Associated Press --- VENICE, Dec. 23 - Peggy Guggenheim, the expatriate American millionaire who amassed one of the world's foremost collections of modern art, died in a hospital outside Venice today, hospital officials said. Sh... |
24th December 1979 | |
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MARGARET MOORE, 83, SURVIVOR OF TITANIC Margaret Graham Moore of Greenwich, Conn., a passenger on the Titanic when the ship sank on her maiden voyage in April 1912, died in Greenwich Hospital yesterday. She was 83 years old. The 882-foot luxury liner, crowded with celebriti... |
27th April 1976 | |
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MARY C. WELLMAN DIES AT 80; WAS A SURVIVOR OF THE TITANIC TOPSFIELD, Mass., Nov. 25 (AP)---Mary C. Wellman, a survivor of the liner Titanic, died Sunday at her home. She was 80 years old. When Mrs. Wellamn was 16 and studying in Paris, her father booked passage for her and her mother on the ... |
26th November 1975 |
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