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...swank, expensive Fortnum & Mason's can be found a few tins of chicken breast, stews and curries, costly bottled fruits...
With his Duchess in tow, the Duke of Windsor entered swank Fortnum & Mason's department store in London, interrupted a Welsh Guardsman at the biscuit counter: "Are you buying biscuits, too?" No, said the Guardsman, he was getting a camp bed and a few warm things. Tickled to be in harness again, the Duke bought the articles over the officer's protest, selfconsciously announced: "Go ahead. It's all right. I'm your Colonel-in-Chief...
...golfing Wethereds lost a fortune when Ivar Kreuger shot himself. Joyce Wethered went to work at Fortnum & Mason's, first advising customers about golf equipment and later, when she definitely gave up thought of remaining an amateur, selling clubs and giving demonstrations. Galleries who watch a player unique for the uncanny accuracy of her iron shots, which are the weak point in almost every other woman's game, are usually surprised, no matter how low Joyce Wethered's score is, because they expect it to be lower. Soberly Spinster Wethered, who holds the world's record...
Last week Fortnum & Mason did what few great London shops have done: opened a store in Manhattan. The building is seven stories of pink brick with a blue-green base. Its façade and ground floor are a copy of the London shop. Walls and counters are of pale waxed pine, lined with long rows of bottles and preserved goods from all over the world, many painted in pastel shades. Smooth salesmen in morning coats and striped trousers greet the visitors. Much has been done to preserve the British tradition. On exhibit at last week's opening...
...being stuffed with food the better to fatten their livers. To visitors of untrained appetites Mr. Page explains such delicacies as East Indian poppadums, cheeses-marmalades, honeys from Syria, Portugal, Greece, England; Bombay duck; cox-combs in jelly; grouse pie; vintage marmalades; sole farcie en champagne. He explains that Fortnum & Mason anxiously awaits the Department of Agriculture's permission to sell rare soups, including those made from shark fins and kangaroo tails...