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...right little, tight little parishes of England last week, devout Anglican Church folk again buzzed about the Duke of Windsor. Curates placed the tips of their fingers together and cast up their eyebrows. It will certainly be awkward, they opined, for the Bishop of Nassau, Dr. John Dauglish, to have to decide whether Communion may be administered to His Royal Highness, the new Governor and Commander in Chief of the Bahamas, or must be withheld as it normally would be from the husband of a divorcee. In London the Daily Express of Aircraft Production Minister Lord Beaverbrook, who was strongly...
Declared this Church dignitary: "If I were he [the Bishop of Nassau] I should keep up friendly social relations-go to functions at Government House and so on. If the Duke presented himself for Communion without giving me notice, I think I should give him Communion; to avoid public disgrace, I wouldn't pass him over at the altar. But I should see him privately afterward, and ask him not to come again...
...herself by a seamstress. Today, although the Duchess of Windsor spends thousands on her clothes, her old portable sewing machine is still taken along from thrifty force of habit. At Buckingham Palace, she as Mrs. Simpson induced King Edward to make drastic housekeeping economies, and at Government House in Nassau last week the staff expected to be held on a tight rein...
More reservedly enthusiastic were the sun-&-fun-loving income-tax-avoiding members of Nassau's Anglo-American cafe society. As spokesman of the colony's inner circle, Jane, Lady Williams-Taylor, grandmother of onetime Glamor Girl No. 1, Brenda Diana Duff Frazier, decided the Duchess "will be received," primly explained that "she is the wife of the king's representative...
This summer, profiting by last winter's invitation tour of the Orient, Kovacs is belatedly living up to the promise he showed two years ago. Last month he whipped Frankie Parker in straight sets in the Missouri Valley championship. Last fortnight, in Long Island's Nassau Bowl tournament, he trounced Gil Hunt, Joe Hunt and Elwood Cooke, three of America's top-rungers...