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...Duke and Duchess of Windsor were traveling high and fast. They spent two weeks hunting & fishing in Mexico, then, on their way to New Orleans' Mardi gras, they showed up in Houston...
Clint Murchison of Dallas. An oil-rich man who has gone into other enterprises, Murchison owns large interests in gas pipelines, public utilities, insurance companies, a publishing company (Holt). Last week he was entertaining the Duke & Duchess of Windsor at his 120,000-acre ranch in Mexico...
Presidents Grant, McKinley and Garfield slept in 1350's beds, ate off its golden plates. The Duke and Duchess of Veragua came, and the Prince of Wales, who was later to become Edward VII. So did the Infanta Eulalia of Spain, but when she learned that Mrs. Palmer was, after all, an "innkeeper's wife," she salved her pride by arriving hours late, and accepting her hostess' curtsy without a smile...
...show proved that Levine was certainly a lively painter. His composition was clever and his colors bright. Occasionally, when the editorial mood hit him too hard, he began wagging his brush. Then the result was little better than partisan cartooning, e.g., a soapbox snarl at the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, titled Reception in Miami. But when he chose to paint subjects instead of targets-the grimy street corners of downtown America, a littered store window, a peddler's sway-backed nag or a weary tombstone cutter-Levine had something of his own to say. And he said...
Inquiry. Bertrand Russell recalled-an older European attitude toward the U.S.: "The Duchess of Cambridge, at a garden party, examined my mother's skirts, saying in a loud voice: 'I want to see if they are dirty, because I hear you only associate with dirty radicals and dirty Americans.' " Of the present-day U.S., Russell continued...