Word: warfields
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...short and straight. At 9 : 1 5 a.m. Major Thomas Ferebee pressed the toggle and the single bomb was away, down through the substratosphere. Colonel Paul Warfield Tibbets, the pilot, took back the controls and ten pairs of eyes strained at the plexiglass windows as Tibbets turned the plane broadside to Hiroshima. It took less than 60 seconds. Then the brilliant morning sunlight was slashed by a more brilliant white flash. It was so strong that the crew of the Superfortress Enola Gay felt a "visual shock," although all wore sun glasses...
...asked astonished Britons. "The Duke and Duchess of Windsor - coming back to England? Really!" Nevertheless, British papers announced last week that the former King Edward VIII and his wife, the former Wallis Warfield Simpson, would soon return to Britain. They have lived in informal exile ever since Edward abdicated his throne (1936) to marry the Baltimore-born "woman I love." Court circles were stiffly unastonished, implying that they had known for weeks of King George VI 's approval of his brother's return. The homecoming was un officially scheduled for August, when the royal family will be rusticating...
...because that year he had "carried his country 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 World, Conquering Lion of Judah. Man of 1936 was a woman-Wallis Warfield Simpson-and 1937's choice was a couple: Generalissimo and Mme. Chiang Kaishek...
...laborer, in 1915 evolved the Bedaux System which purported to reward workers amply in proportion to work done, but which was widely denounced as exploitation. Rich from his Plan, Bedaux bought a 14th-century French chateau where his friend the Duke of Windsor married Mrs. Wallis Warfield Simpson. On that occasion Bedaux openly admitted: "I am an out-&-out Fascist." In 1937 he planned a U.S. tour for the Duke and Duchess, was stymied by labor leaders' "Baltimore Resolution." In North Africa since 1942, ostensibly to build a trans-Sahara pipeline for edible oil, Bedaux was nabbed there recently...
...years; in London. Never active in his family's business, he was briefly a naval architect, a magistrate in the Transvaal, a soldier in the Boer War and in World War I (D.S.O.). Outspoken and downright, he backed Edward VIII's plan to marry Wallis Warfield, plugged an Anglo-American union for the preservation of democracy, once told Senator Burton K. Wheeler to "go soak his head...