Word: windsors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...serialized fiction and short stories. In its first six issues, for example, Time carried articles on the doings of Parliament, the state of the nation's defenses, profiles on Disraeli and George Sala, one of the first roving correspondents. There was an article on Queen Victoria's Windsor apartments by an anonymous palace stringman, a first-rate TiMEstyle piece on James Marwood, the public hangman; a survey of drunkenness in Britain, several articles by a Time reporter on industrial relations and strikes, a blast at England's Royal Academy...
Docking in Manhattan aboard the Queen Elizabeth, the Duke of Windsor found the Duchess, who had arrived last month, waiting for him at the pier. He gave her one royal buss, and then half a dozen more for the benefit of photographers. As for all those rumors of a rift, he explained that he had stayed behind in France merely to finish some proofreading on his memoirs...
...host of wisecracks and a clutch of New Yorker cartoons about the hole in its cover, the chopped-up pages and accordion inserts that unfold for a foot or more. But Flair's stories on such things as Americans in Paris, fox hunting, and how the Duchess of Windsor decorates her house failed to Stir up the same interest among readers or advertisers. Publisher Gardner (Look, Quick) Cowles and his wife, Flair Editor Fleur Cowles, who had dreamed two months ago of boosting their circulation guarantee from 200,000 to 250,000, got the realities of the situation...
...Duke of Windsor's memoirs...
Steuben glass (Steubenites think the word "glass" is redundant) has done much more than catch the coattails of success in both art and business. Steuben now has some 20,000 customers a year, including Trygve Lie, the Duchess of Windsor, J. Edgar Hoover and President Truman, who has sent Steuben ware as gifts to Princess Elizabeth and Princess Wilhelmina (TIME, Nov. 10, 1947). Seventeen U.S. museums display Steuben's glass, which ranks among the finest, most expensive crystal glassware in the world...