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West Downs School. Balliol College, Oxford. Francis David Langhorne Astor, CH (5 March 1912 – 7 December 2001) was an English newspaper publisher, editor of The Observer at the height of its circulation and influence, and member of the Astor family, "the landlords of New York".
8 feb 2016 · David Astor: a king in the golden age of print. From 1948 to 1975, David Astor transformed Britain’s oldest paper into a vibrant, intelligent weekly renowned for its progressive campaigns...
23 ott 2020 · New catalogue: Archive of David Astor. The catalogue of newspaper editor and philanthropist David Astor is now complete and available online via Bodleian Archives and Manuscripts.
13 dic 2001 · David Astor retired as editor in 1975 but continued to support many of the causes he had fostered in the paper, among them Amnesty International, asylum-seekers, friendship with Germany, British ...
26 feb 2016 · A fine biography of the idealistic editor who presided over the Observer for nearly three decades captures a journalistic golden age. David Astor (holding glasses) with colleagues Michael Davie...
18 feb 2016 · Book of the day Biography books. This article is more than 8 years old. David Astor by Jeremy Lewis – review. He thought any house with fewer than 16 bedrooms was a ‘cottage’ and never knew...
12 dic 2001 · David Astor, who as editor for 27 years of Britain's oldest Sunday newspaper, The Observer, built it up into a respected and successful advocate for liberal causes but later presided over its...
