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After grappling with two ghostwriters on the issue of how memorable her memoirs should be (TIME, Oct. 17), the Duchess of Windsor joined the dwindling list of do-it-yourself autobiographers, sailed for Paris to take pen in hand, "starting from scratch," in tracing her own rise from Baltimore. Her new title for the yarn, slated to begin serialization in McCall's magazine next March: The Heart Has Its Reasons...
...last, Padre Gonzalez Salas rose from his bruised and bleeding knees to offer a Te Deum of thanksgiving for the passengers of the Pinta, not one of whom had suffered so much as a scratch in the rough landing. Then the padre turned to his companions. "I am very happy," he said...
...estate on Long Island. It was the beginning of a great friendship. Wrote crotchety old Harold Ickes: "Mr. Harriman was one of the famous group of patron-protégés of the late Harry Hopkins. Probably he was the chief of these. He was always willing to scratch Harry Hopkins' back just as Hopkins was willing to scratch his ... He started Harriman on his public career, and kept promoting him until the very...
...surroundings might have caused him to scratch his head thoughtfully, for here wasn't the glamour to which he was accustomed, the glamour of a big Saturday game with all the trappings. In the place of cheerleaders and huge concrete stadium were other members of the team sitting on the four-tiered wooden bleacher wrapped in parkas against the cold...
...every four a master's degree. With his talent monopoly, Hughes has repeatedly outbid some of the biggest U.S. firms for contracts, and been able to deliver. On the fire-control system, for example, the Air Force gave Hughes a year to develop the project from scratch; nine months later, an Air Force pilot flying a jet fitted with the prototype unit shot down an unseen target plane automatically...