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...Maury and before that the London modiste's mannequin Paula Gellibrand. H. R. H. Marina, Duchess of Kent, was described by News-Review as having "drifted from the smart set and left her husband to go the smart socialite rounds for them both . . . with zest." In London the Beaverbrook Daily Ex press (circulation 2,040,000) broke the Kent & Mrs. Allen story in Britain's daily press, sharply editorialized: "One way to keep clear of such news is not to do the things that make such news." Not so the august London Times (circulation 192,000) which...
Scene: The Private Study of King Edward at Buckingham Palace: Tiny Lord Beaverbrook, the most powerful London publisher and a onetime Canadian insurance salesman, perches with his broad grin in the middle of an armchair. Over whiskeys & sodas from 6 p. m. to 8 p. m., the King, restless and flushed with anger, tells Lord Beaverbrook, hastily summoned from a proposed trip to Arizona, of his resentment at Prime Minister Baldwin's summoning of the Cabinet to interfere in His Majesty's proposed marriage to twice-divorced Mrs. Simpson (TIME, Dec. 7). A break obviously is near...
...Germany, though Her Majesty was born in England. "Personally I believe the Cabinet is wrong about the Dominions," continues Colonel Wedgwood, "I believe the Dominions are behind the King, just as are the mass of people in this country!" Says beefy Lord Castlerosse, the inseparable companion of tiny Lord Beaverbrook: "The King M has an inferiority complex. . . . Mrs. Simpson has built up her man. . . . She said to the King:'My boy, you're not the fool you think...
...London paper of largest circulation, Baron Beaverbrook's Daily Express, carried a leering rumor from The Hague that in the Royal Gardens "someone did catch a glimpse" of the Crown Princess and her fiance, Prince Bernhard zu Lippe-Biesterfeld (TIME, Dec. 7 et ante}, "just at a moment when the Prince put his arm around the Princess's neck and kissed her." The "someone" who observed the engaged couple may have been Queen Wilhelmina herself or any other Dutch chaperon for all the Daily Express appeared to know, but Lord Beaverbrook's paper carried the story...
Aided and embarrassed by friends who showed all Beaverbrook's excitement about his return to the land of the little wooden shoes, Lockhart soon found that spectators were almost more interested in his reunion with Amai than he was. He put it off as long as possible, fearing to find Amai a fat, betel-nut-chewing grandmother. He lingered in Singapore, speculated about the British Empire and colonial service, the future of the East, revolution and the consequences of the cinema lowering white prestige before the yellow races. When at last he met Amai, with his friends waiting nearby...