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...born Mrs. Jacques Balsan, 65, sometime Duchess of Marlborough, who just beat Lady Decies back to the U.S. in 1940, got back to Manhattan from Saratoga Springs to find she had lost $11,000 worth of jewelry. It later bubbled up in a Saratoga Springs laundry-with some Balsan flatwork...
...perched well back on her head. The man, in suit, shirt and tie of matching grey, was deeply tanned under his blond hair. Every eye in the chamber watched as they walked to their seats. Then, as one man, Congress and Supreme Court rose, saluted the Duke and Duchess of Windsor with a thunder of cheers...
Next day, in Manhattan, the Duke and his Duchess saw another phase of the U.S. manpower problem. At the new Women's Military Services Club they were guests of honor at the first Saturday tea dance, attended by 850 WAACs, WAVES, Army nurses, and servicemen...
Back in Manhattan for another visit were the Duke & Duchess of Windsor, who came to town with a manservant, a maid and a secretary. The Governor of the Bahamas said that it was both a personal and a business visit, that the matter of the Bahamas' war-torn economic situation would be taken up in Washington. "I want to see what's in the stores," said the Duchess. Said the yellow-carnation-boutonniered Duke: "I'm afraid there won't be much shopping. We haven't many dollars...
...MURDER-William Rough-ead-Sheridan House ($2.75). Excellently written studies of eight famous 17th-and 18th-Century murders, including Pennsylvania's notorious Châpman murder (with arsenic: 1831) and the sensational French killing of the Duchess of Praslin by her husband (sharp and blunt instruments: 1847). Author Roughead's calm, intelligent, slightly old-worldly accounts (Twelve Scots Trials, Enjoyment of Murder) have made him, in Dorothy Sayer's words, "the best showman that ever stood before the door of a chamber of horrors...