
Resort Life, Chapter XXXIII: August – December 1967 Down East + Palm Beach + Naples + Virgin Islands
Palm Beach• January 14, 2014.By 1967, Brooke Astor had already made a name for herself. Following her short-lived five-and-one-half year marriage to Vincent Astor, and his ensuing death in 1959, she spent the next more than four decades dispensing as much as $200 million. As head of the Astor Foundation, she became New York’s most generous godmother. Having transforme...