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...subject of Mrs. Simpson "a weekly periodical with a large and influential circulation." Reynolds continued: "At the same time efforts will be made to have pressure brought on the editor of the American journal from another quarter. . . . [John Pierpont] Morgan's close friends are the Duke and Duchess of York, who have several times been his guests. So Morgan will be asked to intervene...
...Prince Edward of Kent, 6th in line of succession to the Throne, was officially announced to have "entertained" his parents the Duke and Duchess of Kent last week on his first birthday. Prince Edward wore the latest thing in woolen suits, knitted for him by Queen Mary, and during afternoon tea cooed and gurgled at his sugar cake with one candle. His mother last week canceled all social engagements for the winter, thus intimating to the pleased British populace that she is expecting a second child. ¶Queen Mary's amiable brother Alexander Augustus Frederick William Alfred George Cambridge...
...days later he received that indefatigable cultivator of the great, Columbia's Nicholas Murray Butler, then went out to look at local churches. Between these duties at Inisfada, Mrs. Brady's estate, Cardinal Pacelli chatted, supped with his blue-eyed hostess, born Genevieve Garvan, now a papal Duchess and board chairman of the Girl Scouts of America. Also at Inisfada the Cardinal celebrated daily Mass in devout and generous Mrs. Brady's private chapel...
...addition to the Royal Dukes and Duchesses, the Duke & Duchess of Marlborough, the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland, the Duke & Duchess of Buccleuch and Queensberry and the Earl and Countess of Rosebery were invited to be with the King and Mrs. Simpson at Balmoral Castle. Its nine Scottish pipers who, headed by Major Henry Forsyth, are accustomed to march around the Monarch's dinner table nightly and render old Highland airs at 9:30, were ordered by Edward VIII last week to pipe for the benefit of his assembled guests St. Louis Blues whose lyric goes: "St. Louis woman...
...Simpson is no great churchgoer and on Sunday the Duchess of York and Kent remained with her at Balmoral Castle while to church went the King, the Duke of York and Kent, and His Majesty's little nieces Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret Rose...