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Dignified Prince Edward, after dining for a last time with his Queen Mother, new King George VI, the Duke of Gloucester and the Duke of Kent, drove last week at great speed through night and fog to Portsmouth, intending to embark on the Admiralty Yacht. At the last moment this plan was changed; the name of the yacht is the Enchantress. It was dignified to sail instead on the British destroyer Fury, and "His Grace, the Duke of Windsor"-as Prince Edward was created this week by King George VI-debarked at Boulogne into a private...
...Croydon Airport, on a night so clogged by fog that most commercial aircraft had been grounded, and with the weather turning so cold that wing ice was a peril, the risk of taking off for France was resolutely taken by Theodore Goddard, head of the law firm which obtained Mrs. Simpson's decree nisi (TIME, Nov. 2), and chunky Dr. William Douglas Kirkwood, a pre-eminent London gynecologist...
...Stanley Baldwin that Berlin would immediately break off diplomatic relations with Moscow in case the OGPU should execute in Russia German Engineer Emil Ivan Stickling, who Was sentenced to death fortnight ago for "sabotage"' (TIME, Nov. 30). Ambassador von Ribbentrop then left by air through a dangerously dense fog for Berlin. In Moscow, with evident perturbation, the Soviet Council of Commissars soon issued a most singular communique, revealing that in Russia the quick-triggered OGPU sometimes get considerably ahead of the rest of the Communist mechanism of "class justice." Announced the Council: "It has been found possible to reduce...
...they would produce as much sun-power as the dam will yield waterpower. Viscount Falmouth looked at the solar engine, said to Mr. Dunn: "I don't think any solar engine will ever work in England. Do you think, sir, you could induce Dr. Abbot to perfect a fog motor...
What polo means to the rest of the world is in reverse ratio to its importance in that enameled frieze of polite 20th Century pleasure that constitutes September social life on Long Island. Deserted through muggy August days while the fog horns mooed unhappily along the Sound, the big Georgian houses along the North Shore were last week filled again, lighted for parties through cool evenings as their owners returned from Newport, Saratoga, Maine and Europe...