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...HEART HAS ITS REASONS (372 pp.)-The Duchess of Windsor-McKay...
Turbulent, Turgid. As an elaborate gag, Shepherd began booming last month a purely imaginary historical novel-a "turbulent, turgid, tempestuous" composite of "Frank Yerby, Kathleen Windsor and Norman Vincent Peale." The book was first conceived as a hoax to shatter the faith of day people in their own "book lists." Shepherd urged fans to canvass shops for the nonexistent title I, Libertine, ascribed to "nonauthor than" Frederick R. Ewing, "well-remembered for his BBC talks" on 18th century erotica. By noon next day, one Manhattan store had received some 30 orders. The title mysteriously appeared on Boston's list...
Person to Person (Fri. 10:30 p.m., CBS). Ed Murrow visits the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Artist Jon Whitcomb...
...Duchess of Windsor, to many a most enviable woman, believes that she has an "appalling" place in history. This account of how she got there, according to her loyal publishers, was written by her alone, but ghostly fingers may nevertheless be detected at work with the familiar cheesecloth. The life of Wallis Warfield of Baltimore is well-known-perhaps too well. But this retelling carries the great interest of being her own first official version of how she played finders-keepers, losers-weepers with a king and his kingdom...
...maintains a Long Island estate, a duplex apartment in Manhattan, town houses in Paris and Athens, a London penthouse at Claridge's once occupied by Sir Winston Churchill, a four-story, $575,000 Cap d'Antibes chateau that has sheltered such royal refugees as the Duke of Windsor and Belgium's ex-King Leopold. Recently, he bought "Blue Horizons," one of Bermuda's most elegant abodes...