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...PRODUCING AN ADAPTATION of Tom Brown's School Days the British Broadcasting Corporation faced a problem a bit different from the ones it dealt with succesfully in its series on the wives of Henry VIII, which appeared in this country last summer. It was possible to reconstruct the lives of the wives from a variety of sources; Tom Brown's School Days is a fairly well-known book, and any television serial that borrows its title invites a fairly stiff comparison...
...dashing young king gives up his throne for a woman while half the world breathlessly watches and listens. The courtship of Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson may be the romance of the century; but to the producers of this dramatized recreation, it is just another soap opera, with Windsor Castle taking the place of General Hospital, Edward standing in for the handsome doctor on rounds, and poor Wally playing the inevitable "other woman...
Portrait: The Woman I Love. Hour-long special recounts the 1936 love affair of England's King Edward VIII and Wallis Warfield Simpson, twice-divorced American, that led to Edward's abdication. Richard Chamberlain and Faye Dunaway star. CH. 5. 9 p.m. Color...
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...popular of his more than 100 books. He wrote controversial nonfiction as well: Greek Memories (1932) earned him a ?100 fine for revealing official documents from his tenure as a World War I intelligence agent, and The Windsor Tapestry (1938) created a sensation with its passionate defense of Edward VIII's abdication. Mackenzie held off until age 80 to begin his ten-volume My Life and Times, and confessed that he had to reread his early works "because I can't remember how they come out. I'm amazed to find how good they...