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...last week British kings have always appeared at such functions in resplendent uniform. Edward VIII wore a dark grey morning coat. Though rain soon began to patter, ladies whose expensive garden frocks were being ruined remained so obviously eager to drop their curtsies to His Majesty anyhow that he permitted them to continue until presentees began entering the durbar tent in sopping and sodden condition...
...Startling innovations by Edward VIII last week were appointment to the Royal Household of an osteopath and an aviator. Officially styled "Manipulative Surgeon to His Majesty," muscular and dynamic Sir Morton Smart has been for 16 years his royal master's chief rubdown man, recently boasted to a Parliamentary commission that nine jockeys who rode in the last Grand National Steeplechase are his patients, including the winner. Cracked Orthopedic Surgeon Arthur Sydney Blundell Bankart of the British Medical Association last week: "Osteopathy is brute force-an ignorant American stunt...
...King-Emperor Edward maintained his refusal to receive Emperor Haile Selassie in audience, but on the 45-year-old Ethiopian's birthday last week 42-year-old Edward VIII sent congratulations...
...Hyde Park last week Edward VIII presented new colors to six battalions of Guards' Regiments. Six weeks ahead of time the omniscient London Times described exactly what was going to happen...
...morning that Edward VIII gave new standards to his Guards, Jerome Bannigan, a clubfooted, baldish young Scot who prefers to be known as George Andrew McMahon, left his home in Paddington. Author of a series of articles entitled Unmoral Girls, Vacuum Cleaner Vampires, Is Nudism Immoral? Why I Shall Not Marry, Too Old at Thirty, McMahon ran an herb shop in Netting Hill at which he tended counter in a wing collar and a long frock coat. A violent opponent of capital punishment, he had written a series of abusive letters to Home Secretary Sir John Simon...