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...came news that after a year and a half of marriage to his American-born Duchess, the Duke of Windsor now calls a dinner jacket a "tux," a wireless a "radio," occasionally emits the word "cute." But he still says "we" when he means himself, still insists that all their friends refer to his wife as "Her Royal Highness." (Their proposed visit to England in March has been indefinitely postponed because of the dispute over her title.) The Duchess he addresses as "My Darling," sometimes "Sweet...
...course, British bookmakers chalked their odds. Favorite at 8-to-1 was Johnny Goodman who had impressed Londoners as well as canny natives on the Ayrshire coast during his practice rounds since landing in the British Isles the week before. Others fancied were: Defending Champion Robert Sweeny, American-born Londoner who is famed for the elegance of his Ascots as well as the elegance of his swing; Scot Hector Thomson who won the title in 1936 and holds the course record at Troon; John Stevenson, a local sensation who knew every clump of gorse on the course. Boy Bruen...
Under the U. S. Constitution the President must be an American-born citizen, and since Mr. Lewis was born in Wales, regardless whether he desires to be or not to be, he is not eligible for the Presidential office...
...wife in tax returns from the eight States which have community property laws,† thereby reducing individual surtaxes; 3) the flat tax of 10% on U. S. income of nonresident aliens, imposed by the revenue law of 1936. This reduced the tax on the $300,000 income of an American-born woman who married an Englishman from...
...Academy prizes, unfamiliar to Easterners was the winner of one of the two highest prizes in the show-the $700 Altman Prize for a figure painting by an American-born citizen, which went to Charles Stafford Duncan for Girl in Black, a study of a sombre, thin-faced young woman with a curiously rigid left hand, seated on a sofa...