Seeking to prove that the late William Waldorf Astor, Viscount Astor was not expecting to die when he set up a $46,000,000 trust fund in the U. S. Aug. 15. 1919, two months before he died, Attorney John William Davis had Nurse Mary Louise Jeffreys read into the record in Federal District Court in Manhattan last week the Viscount's rules for longevity as penned in letters sent at the time of the trust fund to his grandson, then aged twelve.
"Drink plenty of wine from childhood on, spend a week with a barrel of...
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