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...time Sister Elizabeth Kenny, the Australian nurse who developed the Kenny treatment for infantile paralysis, last week threatened to go home. Her running feud with orthodox medical men has long enlivened the press (TIME, Sept. 27, 1943; June 26). And her forthright disposition has earned her the nicknames "The Duchess" and "Madam Queen." Not satisfied when doctors accept her methods, she insists that they also accept her theories-theories that many experts say lack proof...
...Both the Duchess and I love to travel," the Duke said, and added: "Nearly five years in Nassau is the longest time I have spent in one place since my adolescence, and the longest I hope to spend in any place in the future. . . . We have no immediate plan beyond going to New York and probably to my ranch in Canada...
...Said the Duchess: "With the world as it is, one could not make a decision now. But we shall definitely visit France. Our possessions are scattered all over France.* We must see what is left...
...been a long time. When they first came, there had been that embarrassing scene at the Emerald Beach Club when Nassau high society had formally welcomed the Duke and snubbed his Duchess. The colonials had to be more British than the British...
...Duchess de Talleyrand, 70, chic, spry daughter of the late financier Jay Gould, and a longtime (40 years) resident of prewar France, announced that she would auction off her famed collection of orchid plants-more than 5,000, valued at about $75,000-for the benefit of the Red Cross. In giving up the collection, which blooms in a two-block-long greenhouse on the Gould estate in Tarrytown, N.Y., the Duchess will save some 75 tons of coal for spring heating, can free nine gardeners for other work...