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Acidulous Society Author Cleveland (The Proper Bostonians, The Last Resorts) Amory, 38, scudded into Manhattan after a voyage from England, licking psychic wounds that he picked up in a five-month running battle of wills with the redoubtable Duchess of Windsor. Hostilities loomed the very moment the duchess hired Amory to carry on the ghosting of her autobiography, a meandering treatise on which three years had already been spent. Amory summed...
...hysteria" in the U.S., were plainly rattled. Assistant Deputy Minister of Agriculture Stanislas Joseph Chagnon publicly apologized for the demonstrators' behavior. "I told the delegates I am sorry," he said. "I am embarrassed." To avoid any further embarrassment, it was announced that plans to visit Toronto and Windsor, Ont., where there are large immigrant populations, had been canceled, and that the Russians' revised itinerary would be kept secret from...
Strollers in Venice, where the international set flocked for the annual September season, noted a familiar figure ambling slowly along palace-lined canals wearing unfamiliar sports clothes, recognized the Duke of Windsor, browsing around and getting a breath...
...that of Shipowner Niarchos, who, fed up with Elsa's publicity, loudly disclaimed any connection with the cruise. ("I did get a boat for her. but I don't see why I should be mentioned all the time.") The other belonged to "Wally,'' Duchess of Windsor, whose well-publicized feuding with Elsa is a matter of far greater study to international cafe society than all the legends of all the Grecian Isles. With regal precision, Wally, who was not invited on the cruise, timed her arrival in Venice to coincide exactly with that of Elsa...
...slated to sail from Venice next week to nose about Greece and its islands. On the celebrity-jammed roster of some 120 guests: Scotland's Duke and Duchess of Argyll, Hostess-with-Mostes' Perle Mesta, Prince Aly Khan, Cinemactress Olivia de Havilland. Conspicuously uninvited: the Duchess of Windsor, once one of Elsa's best friends, but now (it's mutual) one of her severest critics. To discourage her seagoing party from completely wasting its substance in riotous living, Elsa was also charting a full course of culture-vulture activities, including pilgrimages to antiquities and monuments ashore...