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DAVID POWELL Windsor, Conn...
Died. Commander Earl Winfield Spencer, 61, U.S.N. (ret.), first husband of Wallis Warfield, now Duchess of Windsor; of a heart ailment; in San Diego, Calif...
With uncompromising pride of authorship, Windsor then rewrote the typescript drafts, fiddling endlessly with every word, frequently chucking out sentences or words suggested by Murphy because "I don't talk like that." The Duke worked in his shirtsleeves ("I can't think in my coat"), with six pipes close at hand. At the start, he rarely settled down to work until 11:30 a.m., and he generally broke; up the afternoon for such engagements as golf with Leopold of the Belgians. At the end, he was on a strict 9-to-6 regimen...
...even take a walk in the rain because it brought criticism from those who thought a king should not get his feet wet. There were more important drawbacks. He had his first foreboding interviews about Mrs. Simpson with the Archbishop of Canterbury and with Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin. Windsor lifts the curtain on the intrigue-packed scenes when Baldwin tells Edward that the Empire will not stand for a marriage to Mrs. Simpson. At the end comes the ringing abdication speech ("At long last . . ."), Contrary to reports once generally accepted (TIME, Jan. 2), the Duke insists that he wrote...
After three years of phrase-turning, Windsor has no illusions about the difficulties of the job. To brother Bertie (George VI), he confided that writing was "the hardest thing I have ever tackled"-including the King business...