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...came news that after a year and a half of marriage to his American-born Duchess, the Duke of Windsor now calls a dinner jacket a "tux," a wireless a "radio," occasionally emits the word "cute." But he still says "we" when he means himself, still insists that all their friends refer to his wife as "Her Royal Highness." (Their proposed visit to England in March has been indefinitely postponed because of the dispute over her title.) The Duchess he addresses as "My Darling," sometimes "Sweet...
...newspaper, the News arranged with the commercial Applied Research Laboratories of Dayton, N. J., headed by Biologist Thomas Durfee, to do its experimenting. Director Durfee got in a supply of scientifically bred white rats whose pictures duly appeared in the News alongside Murderer Robert Irwin, Spy Johanna Hofmann, the Duchess of Windsor. Following methods suggested by earlier experiments in Germany and England he douched female rats with 2% or 3% bicarbonate of soda solution to get male offspring, with 1% or 2% lactic acid solution to get females, then mated them as quickly as possible. In forty-two litters since...
...terrorist campaign scored its first victory when the Northern Ireland Government reluctantly announced that the visit of the Duke and Duchess of Kent to Belfast had been indefinitely postponed...
...Duchess of Windsor was last week reported to be eating garlic, long esteemed by Koreans as an aid to fertility. The Duchess was one of the "twelve most glamorous women in the world" invited to a tea given by Lady Mendl in Paris for Dr. H. B. Hauser, Hollywood dietitian.* At the tea, Dr. Hauser talked about food. He accused his twelve fellow guests of "sinful eating," promised them that they "could retain their glamor for a much longer time" by eating simpler foods and more vegetables. Reported Dr. Hauser: "All were serious and the Duchess of Windsor the most...
...Other eleven by the doctor's reckoning: Princess Etienne du Beaumont, Mme Arturo Lopez Perez, Princess Karam of Kapurthala, Lady Charles Cavendish (nee Adele Astaire), Princess Guy de Faucigny-Lucinge, Mrs. Harrison Williams, Mme Jean Ralli, Countess Khuen Hedervary, Comtesse de Montgomery, Mme Andre Dubonnet, Duchess de Chaulnes...