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...fate has odd ways. And so, in Windsor Locks, Conn., Pilot Clifford...
...South Windsor, Conn...
...Samuel F. B. Morse had not the impulse to invent the steamboat and the telegraph taken priority with them. When he died in 1820, a few weeks after George III, the new King, George IV, wanted to banish all his father's Wests to the lumber room of Windsor Castle. He backed down only when another eminent West student intervened. The man was Sir Thomas Lawrence, who in that same year started his own loving portrait of the benign old master...
Lord and Lady Randolph Churchill often stayed there with "Copper Top," as Rosa called young Winston. Other cherished guests were Lord Northcliffe, General Kitchener and the Duke of Windsor, upper bohemians such as Ellen Terry, G. B. Shaw, Isadora Duncan, Artists John Singer Sargent and Augustus John (who both painted Rosa), and "all the American aristocrats...
Restless drifters between the gilded mansions of Palm Beach and the palm-fringed villas of the French Riviera for a quarter of a century, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor arranged to spend their silver wedding anniversary with what the New York Times termed "symbolic appropriateness''-at sea. After a farewell whirl of champagne-and-caviar parties tossed by Manhattan's ever-doting socialites, Edward, 67, and Wallis, 65, boarded the liner United States for a trip to Europe and a quiet, high-seas celebration in perfect counterpoint to the carnival atmosphere surrounding their 1937 wedding...