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...Duchess of Windsor wrapped up and sent off her much-copied 1937 "Wallis Blue" wedding gown to be a part of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's costume institute...
Docking in Manhattan aboard the Queen Elizabeth, the Duke of Windsor found the Duchess, who had arrived last month, waiting for him at the pier. He gave her one royal buss, and then half a dozen more for the benefit of photographers. As for all those rumors of a rift, he explained that he had stayed behind in France merely to finish some proofreading on his memoirs...
...inspired a host of wisecracks and a clutch of New Yorker cartoons about the hole in its cover, the chopped-up pages and accordion inserts that unfold for a foot or more. But Flair's stories on such things as Americans in Paris, fox hunting, and how the Duchess of Windsor decorates her house failed to Stir up the same interest among readers or advertisers. Publisher Gardner (Look, Quick) Cowles and his wife, Flair Editor Fleur Cowles, who had dreamed two months ago of boosting their circulation guarantee from 200,000 to 250,000, got the realities...
Steuben glass (Steubenites think the word "glass" is redundant) has done much more than catch the coattails of success in both art and business. Steuben now has some 20,000 customers a year, including Trygve Lie, the Duchess of Windsor, J. Edgar Hoover and President Truman, who has sent Steuben ware as gifts to Princess Elizabeth and Princess Wilhelmina (TIME, Nov. 10, 1947). Seventeen U.S. museums display Steuben's glass, which ranks among the finest, most expensive crystal glassware in the world...
There could be no doubt of King's faith in spiritualist guidance, the duchess insisted; he tried constantly to "see the vision." His only reason for keeping his spiritualist activities a secret was because "in his official capacity he couldn't allow it to be too well known...