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...palm-fringed Government House a barrage of phone calls and cables descended. For half a day the Duke of Windsor was not at home to any queries. Then he donned a dapper, grey check suit, pinned a red carnation in his lapel, and with his well-dressed Duchess at his side, gallantly went forth to meet the press and explain his second abdication...
There was not much to explain, really. On April 30, when he had asked to be relieved, his normal five-year tenure would still have three months to run. (The newsmen had heard the rumor that the Duke wanted to leave then because the Duchess could not stand the heat of the Bahamian summer. But the Duke said nothing about that.) Some distant day, said the Governor, he and the Duchess would like to return. "I have a deep affection for the Bahamas...
Married. Rouben Mamoulian, 47, lean, owl-eyed stage & screen director (Oklahoma!, Queen Christina); and Azadia Newman, 33, comely, lynx-eyed socialite portraitist, cousin of the Duchess of Windsor; he for the first time, she for the third; in Peekskill...
...daughter of the late, great brain surgeon, Dr. Harvey Gushing, was the No. 1 blossom on the New York Dress Institute's* list of the world's ten best-dressed women. For the first time in years Mrs. Harrison Williams failed to make the list; the Duchess of Windsor was No. 10 by "the skin of her teeth...
Amber set the Court vogue for mixed nude bathing in the Thames and for low-necked dresses. "Ods-fish, madame," cracked the King, "the greatest display that ever I've seen . . . since I was weaned!" All the best people came to see the Duchess taking her bath in asses' milk, attended by Herman, her Algerian eunuch. "Pray, no ceremony here," Amber would cry, rising from her marble tub: "Herman-fling me a towel...