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...first knew in China. In her bedroom a private telephone line and special hookup for instant connection through to England has been installed. Mrs. Simpson calls Fort Belvedere. At Cannes the first statement made for her is handed to reporters at the Hotel Majestic by Peregrine Francis Adelbert Cust, 6th Baron Brownlow, close friend of Edward VIII: "The following is an official statement. . . . Mrs. Simpson, throughout the last few weeks, invariably has wished to avoid any action which would hurt or damage His Majesty or the Throne. . . . She is willing, if such action would solve the problem, to withdraw forthwith...
...United Kingdom popular newspapers hire downy-lipped young peers to "review" new motor cars and the London Sunday Pictorial surpassed itself when it got the 6th Earl of Cottenham to write about the Phantom III. No fool, the Earl has worked in the aviation department of Vickers Ltd., the leading British armorers, but his description of the time he first drove a Phantom III has become a little classic of Mayfairese. Its title: The Well Behaved Great-Grandson of a Ghost...
...Prince Edward of Kent, 6th in line of succession to the Throne, was officially announced to have "entertained" his parents the Duke and Duchess of Kent last week on his first birthday. Prince Edward wore the latest thing in woolen suits, knitted for him by Queen Mary, and during afternoon tea cooed and gurgled at his sugar cake with one candle. His mother last week canceled all social engagements for the winter, thus intimating to the pleased British populace that she is expecting a second child. ¶Queen Mary's amiable brother Alexander Augustus Frederick William Alfred George Cambridge...
...Sandburg came back to hometown Galesburg wearing the blue of a private who had seen service with the 6th Illinois Volunteers in Porto Rico. Hero Sandburg resumed his poverty-ridden studies at Lombard College. Edgar Lee Masters came to Knox College from Kansas, stayed several years, and prepared for life in a law office...
...6th. Comes my taylor's man in the morning, and brings my suit home, and all a bubble to tell how handsome it be. Whereupon, after much ado, feeling he hath won my humour, he did present the bill which being so large I swore not to pay. But he, with much technique, did win me over. I, much vexed; for such business doth displease me; and was glad at my heart...