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...King with a Flutter. But the Duke and Duchess of Windsor were gay. After five years of living death in the tranquil Bahamas, the world's most publicized hedonists were fluttery with the anticipation of returning to Paris. Their elegant mansion at 24 boulevard Suchet in the fashionable Passy quarter had not been molested by the Germans. It was ready to receive the ducal pair. Weeks ago the Duchess had cabled her instructions to the decorators (her bedroom was to be midnight blue and white). Another cable had brought the Paris hat now in the high hatbox...
...main floors. But there was enough fuel for heat. If famine threatened, the Duke's chef de cuisine, Maitre Le Laurin, a magician with truffles and morilles, was assured of rations from the British Embassy. And the Germans had not drunk all the vintage wines. From the boulevard Suchet they could go down again to the Côte d'Azur, to long walks in the grounds of their villa La Cröe and basks in the Mediterranean...
...there were some who also wanted a look at America's victorious leaders. The Chicago Daily News clamored for Eisenhower's return, suggested parades down Fifth Avenue and Michigan Boulevard. Said the News: "General Eisenhower's visit would be like the seventh-inning stretch in a critical ball game...
...burlesque, to his characters who, though they are "great ones for clichés, which they usually get just a little wrong," are never caricatures. O'Hara's virtue, says Gibbs, is that he is thoroughly at home an the varied worlds between 52nd Street and Hollywood Boulevard, in one of which "every lady is a tramp and every man an enemy," and in another, "it is possible to be bored to death or to break your heart in the most exclusive surroundings." Readers may agree with him, and yet conclude that Author O'Hara deserves higher...
...becoming a museum piece," he said. "And what if some marines should land on Dewey Boulevard and Manila John isn't among them...