Word: duchesses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Heart Has Its Reasons (381 pp., Michael Joseph, 305.) carries the memoirs of the Duchess of Windsor from her childhood in Baltimore to the present...
Last week Interviewer Edward R. Murrow invited some 20 million Americans into the Manhattan home (the Waldorf Towers) of the Duke and Duchess, and long before his carefully contrived drawing-room drama had run its course, it was clear that the only thing that the Windsors had in common with the Minsky people was overexposure. Sample dialogue...
Murrow: Do you think you and the Duchess could ever be persuaded to settle down in New York...
When the Duke and Duchess of Windsor were asked if they had ever seen Person to Person (CBS), the Duchess replied that they had once watched a TV interview with the Minsky burlesque people: "If we could only come across the screen as nicely as the Minskys...
When Charles II visited his wealthy mistress, Barbara, Duchess of Cleveland, and surprised her in bed with bone-poor Ensign Jack Churchill, the monarch kept his head and, addressing the young man, said: "You are a rascal, but I forgive you, for you do it to get your bread." How right Charles was may be seen by the fact that after a year or two of bundling with Barbara and shrewdly investing her handouts, Churchill had founded the fortunes of his family and embarked on one of the most glamorous careers in British history...