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...other story, which was no scoop, had a two-column head: WIDENERS' $100,000 PARTY RIVALS GLITTER OF GILDED AGE; MUSIC ALONE COSTS...
...SCOOP, but I thought hundreds of other readers would do so and therefore passed it up. During the past few months, however, I have been taking bets on the matter and naturally have won, all based on the remark of Edward VIII as published in the TIME article...
...Baldwin. The Prime Minister provoked the entire crisis, which otherwise might never have arisen as a crisis, by making publicly in the House of Commons the first official statement that King Edward was actually resolved to marry Mrs. Simpson (TIME, Dec. 14). This fact had been ascertained as a "scoop" personally by William Randolph Hearst, but had it not been made official. Edward VIII might simply have done nothing until after he was crowned May 12, and then (Mrs. Simpson having meanwhile obtained her absolute divorce on April 27), His Majesty had only to marry her and she would have...
...Scoop No. 3 came last week from news-writing Newbold Noyes, a second cousin by marriage of Mrs. Simpson, a son of sedate President Frank Brett Noyes of the Associated Press, and a part-owner and associate editor of the Washington Star. About a month ago he cabled Cousin Wallis, asking if he could be of service to King Edward and herself. She cabled Cousin Newbold to come on over. He dined in Mrs. Simpson's London house on the night of his arrival with her chaperon Aunt Bessie. Cousin Wallis was spending the weekend in the country with...
...shotgun was no part of cousin Newbold's equipment and in the most positive manner he affirmed over each dispatch which he wrote and syndicated and on landing in the U.S. last week that "both the King and Mrs. Simpson have authorized this series." It was Scoop...