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Quietly knitting a dark blue sweater for his fiancée-who last week legally changed her name to Wallis Warfield - the Duke of Windsor sat in the Château de Cande last week through the broadcast of his brother's Coronation (see p. 15). Acting as unofficial press representative, the Duke's faithful U. S. friend, Herman Rogers, issued to newshawks genteel snippets of information: legally changing Mrs. Simpson's name had cost $2.50. . . . Mrs. Warfield had put aside Ernest Simpson's engagement ring for a new emerald from the Duke. ... On Coronation night...
...world. Already he has raised himself into good society from very poor beginnings; and now he is engaged to Sofia, who is far from pretty but has a title. Pietro thinks of himself as the most honest and well-meaning of men, a kind of Roman Buchmanite. When his fiancée's brother, Matteo, quarrels with his wife, Maria Luisa, because she has discovered that Matteo is keeping a mistress, Pietro pants to help out. Maria Luisa has left her husband temporarily, is trying to nerve herself to get even with him by taking a lover. She dislikes...
...wife's, and that consequently there is no chance of being kept by him any longer and no point in marrying him if he got a divorce, she begins to lay her complicated plans for revenge. First she lures Pietro away from his fiancée. With Andreina as his mistress, Pietro's Buchmanite conscience is nearly split in two. He tries to break off his engagement, but Sofia takes his scruples as simply another sign of his nobility, hangs...
...Franklin Jr. after five weeks in Florida recuperating from sinus infection which invalided him last November, returned to the White House cured, bringing his fiancée Ethel du Pont. No sooner had they arrived than Fiancée Ethel came down with acute appendicitis. The Roosevelts, after telephoning her family in Wilmington, called a naval ambulance, shot her into Emergency Hospital a block from the White House where she was successfully operated on by Commander Morton Willcutts...
...scene confusing for Marie is that she still has on trousers, and that Kerry is bathing in a small tin tub; Sex, however, is established on its conventional lines by the time Kerry's Destiny Bay runs against Marie's Wings in the Derby. Her Spanish fiancé, Diego (Teddy Underdown), has claimed her and she would have married him if he had not renounced her when it seemed that Wings was going to be disqualified, leaving her dowerless. When she finds Kerry he is once more taking a bath, this time in an Irish stream...