Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm." The duchess, lamented Ghost Amory, tried to impose worrisome conditions of servitude upon him. He was supposed to prove that 1) B. (for Bessie) Wallis Warfield was born "on the right side of the tracks" in Baltimore, 2) she and the duke are "happy and busy people," 3) Britain's royal family and common folks treated her "very meanly" in disallowing her the title of Her Royal Highness. Said Amory: "I told the duchess I didn't mind omitting facts, but . . . I wouldn't distort them...
...three publishers of her memoirs-namely [New York's] David McKay Co., McCall's Magazine and [London's] Sunday Express-that Mr. Amory's employment was terminated." With Amory's unfinished 300-page manuscript thus brushed aside as "unsatisfactory" hack work, a brand-new ghost was hastily materialized. Starry-eyed with zest for his task, McKay Co.'s Editor Kenneth Rawson exulted: "I have found the duchess filled with desire to tell the truth...
...called for its red vestments, worn in Masses invoking the guidance of the Holy Ghost...
Then she streaked off over the Atlantic as if she had seen a ghost. The apprehensive Northeast states got only drops of local rain and fitful puffs of wind...
...wonderful years plays his baritone in lush surroundings. The sound of the solo is pleasantly, hoarsely tender, and the tone of the improvisation recalls a good-natured storyteller ruminating over his romantic past, with occasional wry asides. Among the good old tunes: It Had to Be You, A Ghost of a Chance...