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...Manhattan, Hattie stirred up the natives with equal success. Wealthy women and celebrities flocked to her salon (among her clientele: Gertrude Lawrence, Clare Boothe Luce, Barbara Hutton, the Duchess of Windsor, Joan Crawford). Although several famed designers learned their craft in her workrooms, Hattie was never a designer in the strict sense. Her talent was for blue-penciling gowns, like an editor, and her critical decisions ("No, no, that sleeve is out I") were almost always right. The Carnegie foundation for a wardrobe-the "little Carnegie suit" became a basic garment for well-dressed women, and was later translated...
With her guard held high, the Duchess of Windsor charged out of the neutral corner where she had stood fast for two decades after marrying Britain's newly abdicated ex-King Edward VIII in 1937. Occasion: McCall's magazine this week began publishing her serialized autobiography, This Is My Side of the Story, which the duchess contends she wrote all by herself. In her "simple story," the Baltimore-bred duchess, after confessing that "no one has ever accused me of being an intellectual," rolls off into her halcyon childhood memoirs, interspersed with some harsh looks in the mirror...
After grappling with two ghostwriters on the issue of how memorable her memoirs should be (TIME, Oct. 17), the Duchess of Windsor joined the dwindling list of do-it-yourself autobiographers, sailed for Paris to take pen in hand, "starting from scratch," in tracing her own rise from Baltimore. Her new title for the yarn, slated to begin serialization in McCall's magazine next March: The Heart Has Its Reasons...
...acquaintances, raised in the press and in millions of conversations the question of possible murder. Long Island police, who also feel the lure of publicity, questioned all of the 58 guests at a party given the night before the killing by Mrs. George F. Baker in honor of the Duchess of Windsor. They did not learn much. Both the Woodwards had seemed overly excited about the prowler. The party had been decorous. Woodward, chemical analysis showed, had no more than two drinks. (Ann rarely took a drink.) He had sat next to Brenda Frazier Kelly and had danced the last...
...Saturday night on Long Island, and Mrs. George Fisher Baker was entertaining. The Duchess of Windsor was the guest of honor, and Mrs. Baker had invited 58 guests-the clabbered creme of New York society-to dine with the duchess and join in the quickening whirl of a new social season. Among Mrs. Baker's glittering guests none were more striking than young William Woodward Jr., 35, the millionaire sportsman, and his wife...