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...three years, Murrow has been trying to lure the Windsors onto his show. This fall the Duchess thought it would be a dignified way of publicizing her new autobiography, The Heart Has Its Reasons (TIME, Oct. 1), and both she and Murrow worked in juicy plugs. But the merciless glare of the TV cameras came a little too close for comfort. The Duchess, like several good-looking girls on TV these days, made the mistake of rushing into the new bouffante hairdo, which the camera reproduces as a bunchy, badly made wig. Otherwise, she looked ageless and chic, but rarely...
Duke: The Duchess prefers city life and all that it has to offer women ... I think better in the country...
...Duchess (self-consciously): Well, he has "aired" my problems, I must say, in the fields...
Then the couple displayed pictures of their pet pugs and extolled the good-luck value of an old Russian icon. Said the Duchess: "I'm terribly superstitious, having been brought up in the South-hats on beds, things hung on doorknobs, number 13 and breaking mirrors...
Added the Duchess in a brittle BBC accent: "David, don't you remember we always said we would never talk about what might have been. In fact, I think we arranged that pact on our honeymoon...