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Fortnight ago, the Duke & Duchess of Windsor arrived quietly in London, went straight to Lord Dudley's tranquil Ednam Lodge estate near Windsor. The unrelenting royal family had sanctioned their visit only if there was a minimum of publicity and display...
Wally Windsor was never a queen, but she managed a faint Marie Antoinettish echo on her return (temporary) to Britain last week. Asked about her wardrobe by a reporter who had just seen three army trucks and two jeeps dump about two tons of baggage, the Duchess said: "We hardly brought anything. Things are fantastic in Paris now. No one will be able to buy clothes there any more if they keep putting the prices up." The conversation turned naturally from clothes to parties. Would the Duchess do much entertaining? "I am here," she said, "in a very unofficial capacity...
...Died. Baroness Eugene ("Kitty") de Rothschild, 61, famed beauty of pre-World War I Vienna's glittering court society, close friend of the Duke & Duchess of Windsor, whose titled third husband is a member of the Austrian branch of the international banking family; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Glen Cove...
...London's airport King George kissed his pretty cousin Marina, Duchess of Kent, and shook hands with Archbishop Strenopoulos Germanos. Then a big British Lancaster bore him off to his strife-torn kingdom...
Canada Lee, Negro pugilist-turned-actor, got into a wig and grease paint in Boston and made a little modern theatrical history by playing a white man's role opposite Star Elisabeth Bergner in The Duchess of Malfi. Critics' judgment: a success. In Wilmington, Del., history repeated itself: a theater manager disavowed racial prejudice but canceled The Duchess' engagement...