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...gravely announced the names of the world's best-dressed women. No. 1 spot was taken over by Mrs. William S. Paley, wife of Columbia Broadcasting System's board chairman and one of the three glamorous daughters of the late great Surgeon Harvey Gushing. The Duchess of Windsor, who has been at or near the head of every list for the last 15 years, slipped clear down to a tie for tenth place with Musicomedienne Mary Martin. Among the other ten best-dressers: Mme. Henri Bonnet, wife of France's Ambassador to the U.S.; Princess Margaret, Oveta...
...news was hardly out that Party-Thrower Elsa Maxwell was planning to exclude the Duchess of Windsor from her forthcoming "Four-Duchess Ball" before café society reporters began circulating a statement reportedly made by the duchess: "It would take four ordinary duchesses to make one Duchess of Windsor!" From her Waldorf suite, Elsa denied she was even thinking of giving a ball, retorted: "Anyway, it's my prerogative to drop a duchess if I want to. I'm tired of duchesses-some duchesses...
Currycombed as sleek as seals, Britain's famed Windsor greys last week were harnessed once again to the Irish state coach to carry their mistress to Westminster for the opening of Parliament. In an age of internal combustion engines, the greys were as much of an anachronism as the three gleaming detachments of the Household Cavalry which escorted the Queen's coach, but all played their parts in the elaborate ceremonial of royal rule with the dignity and solemnity that Britons expect of the occasion...
Despite his long sojourns in France, the Duke of Windsor still speaks French with an accent. While inspecting flowerbeds at his new property at Gif-sur-Yvette outside Paris, he was giving instructions in French to his head gardener when he was interrupted: "Excuse me, Your Highness, but I do not speak any English...
MARGARET A. BURKE Windsor...