Word: duchess
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Please tell me how I can get the copy of TIME that gave the name of the plastic surgeon that lifted the Duchess of Windsor's face...
...Duke & Duchess of Windsor, back at their bomb-nicked Cap d'Antibes chateau, royally entertained a group of U.S. reporters on an Air France publicity junket. Bubbled the New York Herald Tribune's food editor, Clementine Paddle-ford: "Two ice-filled silver buckets . . . sandwiches, one-bite big . . . again and again came the silver trays with fresh glasses of the bubbling champagne...
Princess Elizabeth was undergoing alterations. The puffs and frills of girlhood were giving way to simpler, more sophisticated (and more slimming) styles; and Designer Norman Hartnell-still mama's dressmaker-was giving way to Molyneux, the very smart Duchess of Kent's stylist...
Rosamond Marshall, best-selling peeper into milady's chamber (Duchess Hotspur), explained why women were outdoing men in writing best-sellers about bedrooms. "Men are too inhibited,'' said she. "They cannot write a good book dealing with sex without getting themselves in it. They are, to put it bluntly, too muscle-bound...
...this was peanuts. Then Pres. Ettinger met Ros Marshall in Hollywood, liked her, quickly signed her up to write three books for Prentice-Hall. Since then he has signed up other authors, plans to put out ten more novels this year. Said President Ettinger, dazzled by the dollar-decked Duchess: "It will have a $1,000,000 sale before the year is up. And there'll be more like it. The absent-minded professors are doing all right...