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...Duchess of Windsor on June 3, 1937, in a small wedding in France at a château near Tours. Ostracized by the royal family but reportedly provided with a £2 million settlement and a yearly income of £60,000, she and the new duke began cultivating the fine art of doing nothing during years of elegant exile. They took up residence in a 30-room house in the Bois de Boulogne, provided by the city of Paris for a nominal rent. They also had a smart converted mill in the French countryside, a luxurious apartment in New York...
...concert grand, plucked by crane from the living room of his Manhattan townhouse, had its 12,000 parts cleaned and examined with a degree of care worthy of Air Force One. Its mahogany case was given coat after coat of high-gloss finish and hand-rubbed with fine steel wool, a laborious task that took 18 hours. It was then packed in space-age material resistant to heat and weather, loaded aboard a 747 early in April and shipped as a diplomatic pouch to Moscow. In the week before the concert, it was tuned and retuned so that it would...
...dissenting from Secretary Shultz," insisted Kalb. "To me, he is a monument of credibility, integrity, courage, strength." Shultz was equally gracious about his departing press secretary, saying, "I am sorry to see Bernie Kalb go. I admire him as a fine journalist, respect him as a colleague and adviser, and value him as a friend." In Kalb's nearly two years at the State Department, he had grown close to Shultz, nudging him into appearing on television more frequently to play up his role as advocate for the Administration's foreign policy...
...McGillis will start shooting Dreamers in Israel, portraying a Jewish pioneer in early 20th century Palestine. "I loved working with her," says Sullivan Street Director Peter Yates. "She's permanently paranoid, but there is enormous charm about it. She's always trying to improve herself." And to date, doing fine...
...subject. Still, boundaries were set down early. "You can't ask me about how I sleep," Dylan announced. "You can't ask me about how I make it, and you cannot ask me what I think I am doing here. Other than that, we'll just get along fine...