Guest List For Astor Funeral: A 415-Name Who's Who Of New York Society 10 Years In The Making

New York Times:

The list, which was updated in the last few years, based on a working version that Mrs. Astor began more than a decade ago, comprises a certain Who's Who of New York cultural and philanthropic society. It includes writers and artists, bankers and ambassadors, Rockefellers and royals. Also on the list are one former president and two former first ladies.

The names include Vartan Gregorian, who was president of the New York Public Library when Mrs. Astor adopted it as her main cause and is now president of the Carnegie Corporation of New York; Paul LeClerc, the current president of the library; musicians as diverse as Harry Belafonte and Renée Fleming; the former television news anchors Water Cronkite, Tom Brokaw and Dan Rather; Martha Stewart; James D. Wolfensohn, a former president of the World Bank; Linda Gillies, director of the Vincent Astor Foundation; and Randall Bourscheidt, president of the Alliance for the Arts.

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