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...painful anticlimax. Last week, the activities of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor attained a crescendo of anticlimax that was almost as newsworthy as the abdication. The crescendo started with the arrival in the U. S. last fortnight of a Mephistophelean little Franco-American efficiency expert, named Charles E. Bedaux, as advance agent for the proposed Windsor tour of the U. S. to study housing and industry, scheduled to start this week (TIME...
...Bedaux Week. To most of the U. S., Efficiency Expert Bedaux has long been a mysterious figure known only as the proprietor of the Chateau de Cande where the Duke and Duchess were married last June and as the inventor of something called the "Bedaux hour."* To U. S. Labor, Efficiency Expert Bedaux is not mysterious at all. Labor regards the Bedaux hour as synonymous with the "stretch-out" and "speed-up," considers Efficiency Expert Bedaux, whose system is used in 1,000 plants throughout the world, one of its bitterest enemies. Arrival of Efficiency Expert Bedaux caused an immediate...
...Washington, where he arrived with a representative of the New York advertising firm of Arthur Kudner, Inc., thus giving the Windsor tour an unfortunate commercial air, Efficiency Expert Bedaux's reception at the State Department was cool. Even cooler was his reception by a group of reporters invited to cocktails at the Mayflower Hotel, which hoped to accommodate Mr. Bedaux's friends when they arrived. Efficiency Expert Bedaux failed to improve matters when, asked whether he was paying for the Windsor tour, he gave a noncommittal answer indicating that...
...Washington last week officials testily told correspondents off the record that Mr. Bedaux's preliminary cablegrams from Europe have packed all the punch to be expected from a self-made man who has risen so far and so fast. The Efficiency Expert apparently got the impression over that something distinctly more official was expected than for the Duke of Windsor and President Roosevelt simply to eat a Gridiron Club Dinner and for the Duchess simply to dine at the Women's National Press Club. Out of the Melting Pot meanwhile poured thousands & thousands of letters about the Duke...
...Bedaux arrived on the Europa same day that Captain Ernest Aldrich Simpson was discovered among the Queen Mary's, disembarking passengers (see p. 40) along with British Ambassador Sir Ronald Lindsay. Sir Ronald divulged that he had "dropped around" to see Mr. Bedaux in London about Windsor's plans, had himself "scratched down the names of a few cities" as possible suggestions. Mr. Bedaux, after going into a half hour huddle with his lawyer, denied that he was the Duke's "manager," said the Duke preferred to make his own announcements. Nobody knew whether...