William Vincent Astor has been interested in mechanics ever since, in his late teens, he greasily dismembered his Franklin automobile.
The touch of a barber's hot towel, or the simple process of swallowing hot coffee, was enough to make a shirt go limp or a woman's make-up shine greasily.
A young blonde in a blue calico bath-towel smiling greasily down at the legend "Golden Hours Return No More.