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...large, luxurious legation of Luxembourg in Washington one day last week Her Royal Highness the Grand Duchess Charlotte and her dashing consort Prince Felix gave a reception. Guests were Cabinet members, Ambassadors, Government officials, other bigwigs. But the guest of honor was a stocky, middle-aged man with a long face and a white-toothed smile who has never held any diplomatic post above that of charge d'affaires: Alabama-born George Platt Waller, for ten years consul and charge d'affaires in Luxembourg...
...Duke of Kent is expected soon to inspect the pilot-training setup in Canada. Meantime his Duchess ducked reviewing a detachment of WRENS in England. Announced trouble: a cold. Real trouble: a wasp bite under her beautiful right...
Some of them had seen "the Duchess" when she entered San Quentin, a fox-faced, shabby murderess, bound for death in a gas chamber. Through the cell blocks the grapevine carried her story: that she (Juanita Spinelli), her common-law husband, Mike Simeone, and Thug Gordon Hawkins had drugged and drowned a gangster. Later another bulletin: a 30-day reprieve for the three by Governor Culbert Olson. Later still: "She's going to sniff it [lethal gas] just the same...
...days later, Warden Clinton Duffy was told that a committee of convicts requested an interview. The committee filed into his office, stated their request: that one of them should die in the Duchess' place. They handed the warden a solemn petition...
Last week Governor Olson gave the Duchess and her two pals a further 30-day reprieve...