Word: duke
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...wedding reception preceded the wedding, too. A goodly segment of café society was there: the Duke & Duchess of Windsor; "Prince" Mike Romanoff, the restaurant world's most famed pretender; onetime Glamor Deb Brenda Frazier Kelly; Rail Tycoon Robert R. Young and his wife; and the Marquess of Blandford...
Then, before Britain's Royal Duke & Duchess of Gloucester (who had traveled from London for the occasion) and 150,000 of Ceylon's six million-odd Eurasians, Indians, Sinhalese, Tamils, Moors and Malays, rugged, 6 ft., 63-year-old Prime Minister Don Stephen ("Jungle John") Senanayake hauled the old Lion flag to its place atop the Temple of the Tooth.* By a peaceful act of Britain's Parliament, Ceylon-like Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Eire, India and Pakistan-had become a sovereign dominion of the British Commonwealth...
...speedy, 31-year-old battle cruiser Renown was always remembered as the ship which had carried the Prince of Wales (now the Duke of Windsor) on his tours around a world which the Prince then still charmed and the British Navy still awed. In 1941 she won Royal Navy renown by braving air attacks and boldly steaming close inshore to bombard Genoa...
Ince had been planning to revive Stage (with backers that included Doris Duke and Real Estater William Zeckendorf) when he heard that Theatre Arts was on the block. He figured that it was cheaper to buy it (for about $40,000) and merge it with Stage than compete with it. When her magazine was sold out from under her, Theatre Arts' able Editor Rosamond Gilder, who had been combing Manhattan for a buyer herself, resigned. The new magazine, out in April, probably would be called The New Theatre Arts...
...Duke & Duchess of Windsor, back in Florida to break the back of another winter, were pretty well set: the Duke applied for, and was awarded, his quail-shooting license...