Word: southerner
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Into Miami last week swooped the yacht Southern Cross, carrying the world's best-known divorcee to the dentist. It was the first time the Duchess (nee Bessie Wallis Warfield, of Baltimore) had been in her native U. S. since 1933. A lot of things had happened in that time, including her marriage to a third husband, who turned out to be the ex-King of England...
...week's end the Duchess suffered a slight setback, after she was moved from the hospital to the Miami-Biltmore Hotel. The Southern Cross had developed some bearing trouble in her port propeller shaft. Pookie had a touch of eczema. But the Windsors expected that everything would be all right for their return this week to Nassau. The happy, busy Duke promised to come back after the first of the year for another, longer visit...
...with Louisville's Herbert Agar, Richmond's Dr. Douglas Southall Freeman, as an editorial influence in the South. When former Governor James M. Cox of Ohio bought the Atlanta Journal last year (TIME, Dec. 25), he offered Editor Hall $10,000 a year-fabulous salary for a Southern editor-and a $25,000 stock interest to leave the Advertiser, move to Atlanta. Publisher Hudson, no piker, heard of the offer, promptly met it, making 52-year-old Grover Hall probably the best-paid editor in the South...
Said Poetaster Hearst, by way of apology: "It is often very warm in southern Spain. And sometimes the heat affects a traveler's head. It was in such a moment of aberration that [these] verses - largely imaginative - were written by your columnist...
...Several days before their football game with Notre Dame, 16 varsity members of the University of Southern California team came down with flu. Also stricken were Head Coach Howard Jones and the team's doctor, Delos Packard Thurber. The Trojans lost...