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...Duchess of Windsor, the thrice-married lady for whose love Edward VIII abdicated, is not Her Royal Highness. She is merely the 29th and lowest Duchess in the realm, a fact which annoys the Duke. It seems to him that the royal family's- particularly the royal ladies'-attitude toward the Duchess is needlessly punitive. He also resents the moral indignation raised against the Duchess by that class of English ladies so well represented by Lucy Baldwin, wife of the Prime Minister who pressured him off the throne. With his chin well out, the Duke was said...
...legal battle of Harvard '42 versus the American Legion passed into the realm of history yesterday when the case of the four Yardlings previously convicted of breaking up a Legion parade of October 6 was quietly nolle pressed when it came up for appeal before Justice Wolch in Superior Court...
...strength is only the strength of the multitude when the multitude gives me a grant of authority to represent it, but when they send their grant of authority, then my strength is multiplied and multiplied in progressive ratio, and it becomes a strength to be reckoned with in the realm of affairs in our democracy." Man of Politics. Labor's multiplied power man has let it be known that the strength of himself and multitude remains at the service of Franklin Roosevelt and New Deal, but not necessarily at the service of Franklin Roosevelt and Democratic Party. To drive...
...purge" in the Soviet fighting services (see col, 3), the eleven accusers wrote: "Soviet aviation, according to Lindbergh, has been left without leadership and is now in a condition of chaos. It is hardly necessary to deny such an obvious lie. . . . Lindbergh performed such a nonstop flight into the realm of calumny and slanderous fabrications that he at once beat all the records of Baron Munchausen. . . . For a long time he has not made any aviation records and as a flier he does not represent anything worth while. . . . The few flights which he is now making in his little plane...
...London, publicity-wise Dress Designer Elsa Schiaparelli opened her fall show. Excerpts from the catalogue (called "Trajectory"): "Coats & jackets foretell the future, their insides stuffed with baby feathers. . . . Hats made of fur or fluff come within the realm of logic. . . . Colors take on the nature of dreams but gold sheds its earthly influence on all we wear...