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...Cannes, France, last week the Rt. Hon. David Lloyd George and the Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill, both members of the Privy Council of King George VI, called and paid their respects to the Duke & Duchess of Windsor. Just before the Windsors returned this week to Paris, oldtime Actress Maxine Elliot (who two years ago rented her Hollywoodesque villa at Cannes to King Edward VIII for a holiday with Mrs. Simpson) entertained at dinner Privy Councilors Lloyd George & Churchill and the Duke & Duchess...
...Hamilton, Bermuda, a pair of smiling pictures of the Duke & Duchess, tacked up by a newspaper counter clerk, Miss Evelyn Stovell, and captioned "They're Happy Now,'' so enraged the Rt. Rev. Arthur Heber Browne, 73, Anglican Bishop of Bermuda, that he tore them down, stalked out. Pursued to his home by Miss Stovell, who demanded her pictures back, the Bishop of Bermuda snapped: "I did not know that those pictures were the private property of Miss Stovell. ... It is disgraceful that they should have been in such a public place...
...days later Miss Stovell wrathfully tacked up three pictures of the Duke & Duchess, received world-wide publicity except in Bermuda, where no paper deigned to touch the story. Said she: "I don't know how I had the nerve to chase the Bishop home and demand an explanation...
...those picked by Edward, figuring "Lucky at love, unlucky at cards." They lost heavily to the bank, from which His Royal Highness won a total for the evening of $40. Next day he paid $20,000 for a flower-shaped emerald pin, surrounded by diamonds, picked out for the Duchess of Windsor who does not gamble...
Wallis Warfield Spencer Simpson was Woman of 1936, but the Duke & Duchess of Windsor, with the assistance of Herr Hitler and Mr. Bedaux, eliminated themselves as completely as possible from an important place in the history of 1937. Their names would scarcely have been mentioned in print at year end, had not London's blatant Daily Express been filled by a story of how the Duchess sent a doll last week to the Miners' Federation of South Wales where King Edward VIII once popularized himself, declaring "Something must be done for Wales!" (TIME...