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...spent her first weekend at Windsor Castle with the royal family. In London she shook 300 hands at a daytime reception (she wore a black hat, scattered with daisies), dined with the U.S. Ambassador, the Prime Minister and the Foreign Minister. She went to Covent Garden (in a black lace dress) to hear La Traviata, and got a thundering ovation as she entered the royal box. She visited the House of Lords, was entertained by the Lord Chancellor, had tea with the Prime Minister. Once as she was entering a London hotel all the men in the crowd outside respectfully...
...Duke & Duchess of Windsor finally had a U.S. summer home all to themselves-a French provincial-chateau-style affair in Locust Valley, L.I., right next to a golf course. They sublet it for two months. Up from the South, they moved in, then packed their bags for a week in Washington and a houseparty with Railroader Robert R. Young at White Sulphur Springs, W.Va...
...Palm Beach, Fla., the Duke of Windsor also toyed with a new pursuit. It was too early yet to guess at his future. He pitched the first ball in the annual Society Softball Game-and it turned out he had never thrown one before. After a little instruction he managed to get it clear to the plate...
...Vera Conard, president of the Women's Club of America, called on U.S. women to crusade for a woman President of the U.S. Among her nominations: the Duchess of Windsor, Clare Boothe Luce, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt. Replied Mrs. John L. Whitehurst, former president of the General Federation of Women's Clubs: "Women voters would not support a woman. . . . Women don't like to see other women get ahead...
...Duke of Windsor was temporarily poorer by $20,000. A fire on his ranch...