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...woman on earth ever made more or bigger headlines than Wallis Warfield Simpson. Known to practically no one when 1936 began, to practically everyone when it ended, she fulfilled TIME'S prime criterion for the news-character most indelibly identified with the past year. Not with the quality but with the calibre of Mrs. Simpson's achievements is TIME concerned...
Normally a courageous feminist, Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt is accustomed to name annually "The Ten Women of the Year." This week she not only did not name Mrs. Wallis Warfield Simpson as one of her ten women of 1936 but emphasized her attitude by announcing that she is not going to name any more women of the years. In past years Mrs. Catt has named such women as Mrs. Lindbergh, Miss Perkins, Miss Earhart, with President Roosevelt's wife heading the list year after year...
...First book-form biography of Mrs. Simpson will be published this week under the title Her Name Was Wallis Warfield.* It also contains one of the "sparkling epigrams" for which Mrs. Simpson has a reputation. The epigram: "Soup is an uninteresting liquid which gets you nowhere." Almost an epigram was Mrs. Simpson's crack when British friends suggested and subsequently arranged that she should be presented at Court in 1931 to their King George...
...Hearst papers announced that 80 of the 100 questioned declared themselves in favor of such a match. Hearstmen then queried British officials in every Dominion and in India without finding any who cared to go on record as opposed to a marriage of the King-Emperor and Wallis Warfield Simpson...
With all U. S. picture agencies scouring their files for Early Simpsoniana, there came to light a snapshot showing that in 1912 in Baltimore the present Mrs. Simpson wore a monocle. In Omaha and Minneapolis scattered distant cousins of Wallis Warfield Simpson were routed out by reporters who found them unanimous in the opinion that "King Edward would be lucky to get one of the Warfields of Maryland," and that, "If you ask me, I think Wallis would make a good Queen...