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They arrived in Washington with equerries, maids, a Scotland Yardsman, three Cairn terriers-Delto, Breezy and Pooky -106 pieces of luggage. They were prepared to be met by official lukewarmth, unprepared for a tumultuous, sigh-heaving, welcome-shouting crowd that followed them hour by hour. Both were sartorially splendid; both made Protean clothes-changes. The Duchess had her hair done by Hairdresser Emile on one side and Emile Jr. on the other. The Emiles reported no grey hairs on either side; achieved a soft upsweep wave over the ears that fetched applause from newshens. The Duke, wrote the male press...
...Windsor" went aboard at Lisbon well before sailing time with three cairn terriers and a Sealyham, 52 pieces of luggage, a portable sewing machine, golf clubs, four wicker crates of old Madeira and port wines, and a 1940 limousine and trailer. "Mr. Windsor" tarried ashore with Portuguese Banker Espirito Santo (Holy Spirit) Silva, who had been host to the Duke & Duchess. The Excalibur waited, and on the pier waited the British Ambassador to Portugal and Lady Selby, the British Minister Sir Noel Charles. Royal Maxim No. 1 is "Punctuality is the politeness of kings," but Windsor was a solid...
...began the famed last lap, alone except for his Negro servant and four Eskimos. His claim: That in five days he covered the remaining 150 miles to the Pole (April 6), made the necessary observations, left a fragment of the flag and a message in a snow cairn, traveled the 150 miles back to the camp at 87° 47' in 56 hours...
Died. Slipper, 2, vivacious sandy Cairn terrier sent by the Duke of Windsor last month to Mrs. Wallis Warfield Simpson; of a viper bite; in a veterinary hospital in Tours, France. Mrs. Simpson telephoned the Duke the bad news, canceled the day's engagements. Besides Slipper the Duke took with him when he abdicated Cairn terriers Cora (10), John (8), Jaggers...
...drinking water sufficient to last the colonists until the Itasca returned. And on the theory that the islands' designation as British on some world maps might be construed as a precedent for British possession, a U. S. flag was raised on each island, and mounted on a cairn of stones were legends like this graven in lead plates...