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Man of 1935 was a surprise to some. We picked him because during that year he had "carried his country up & up into brilliant focus before a pop-eyed world." He was Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia, Power of Trinity I, King of Kings, Elect of God, Light of the...
> Standard treatment for wounds in World War II is to trim off all dying flesh, enclose the limb or trunk in an old-fashioned plaster cast, leave the cast undisturbed for many weeks until the wound has healed. This closed plaster method prevents many an amputation, reduces infection to a...
Died. Mary Kirk Simpson, 45, successor to the present Duchess of Windsor as wife of Ernest Simpson; in Wiltshire, England. She introduced Wallis to Simpson.
They arrived in Washington with equerries, maids, a Scotland Yardsman, three Cairn terriers-Delto, Breezy and Pooky -106 pieces of luggage. They were prepared to be met by official lukewarmth, unprepared for a tumultuous, sigh-heaving, welcome-shouting crowd that followed them hour by hour. Both were sartorially splendid; both...
Into Miami last week swooped the yacht Southern Cross, carrying the world's best-known divorcee to the dentist. It was the first time the Duchess (nee Bessie Wallis Warfield, of Baltimore) had been in her native U. S. since 1933. A lot of things had happened in that...