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Such concerns led to the Administration's own Plan B. While remaining at NCI, von Eschenbach will turn over day-to-day management to deputy Dr. John Niederhuber. The acting FDA chief also reassured his staff that he "will not participate in certain FDA matters in which NCI is a...
The restraint soon ended. In November, even before Wallis Simpson's second divorce was final, the King informed Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin of his intention to marry her. Baldwin vowed to resign rather than allow an American divorcée to become Queen; he also argued that tradition did not permit...
At the height of the furor, Wallis told the King that she was having second thoughts about the marriage, but he persuaded her to go through with it and then abdicated, becoming Duke of Windsor. She became Duchess of Windsor on June 3, 1937, in a small wedding in France...
The estate, which includes everything left by the duke, was estimated at more than $10 million in the 1970s. It includes much art and many mementos, among them the desk from which the abdication speech was made. Wallis continued to put paper clips and fresh ink on that desk, as...
DIED. Hal B. Wallis, 88, wide-scoped film-maker who rose from the ranks at Warner Bros. to become one of Hollywood's most durable, successful producers and whose more than 400 movies included lame-brained vehicles for Elvis Presley and Jerry Lewis as well as such classics as Little...