Word: windsors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...HEART HAS ITS REASONS (372 pp.)-The Duchess of Windsor-McKay...
Turbulent, Turgid. As an elaborate gag, Shepherd began booming last month a purely imaginary historical novel-a "turbulent, turgid, tempestuous" composite of "Frank Yerby, Kathleen Windsor and Norman Vincent Peale." The book was first conceived as a hoax to shatter the faith of day people in their own "book lists." Shepherd urged fans to canvass shops for the nonexistent title I, Libertine, ascribed to "nonauthor than" Frederick R. Ewing, "well-remembered for his BBC talks" on 18th century erotica. By noon next day, one Manhattan store had received some 30 orders. The title mysteriously appeared on Boston's list...
Person to Person (Fri. 10:30 p.m., CBS). Ed Murrow visits the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Artist Jon Whitcomb...
...maintains a Long Island estate, a duplex apartment in Manhattan, town houses in Paris and Athens, a London penthouse at Claridge's once occupied by Sir Winston Churchill, a four-story, $575,000 Cap d'Antibes chateau that has sheltered such royal refugees as the Duke of Windsor and Belgium's ex-King Leopold. Recently, he bought "Blue Horizons," one of Bermuda's most elegant abodes...
...polo field at Windsor Great Park, the Duke of Edinburgh, a victim of a slipped cinch, took a tumble from his mount as Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Charles and Princess Anne watched. Back in the saddle again, Philip resumed the game, but his accident was interpreted by some as divine retribution: many English churchgoers have recently openly looked askance at the Duke's sporting on the Sabbath...