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...Lonely Heart. In Windsor, Vt., Prisoner Harry Priest asked the warden please to delay his forthcoming release two weeks: he wanted to appear in the prison minstrel show. In Stanton, Mich., Parole Violator Harold I. Davis, a fugitive, came back to jail from Texas, explained: "It's better to be in jail where they know you and want you than at liberty in a gay city where they...
...annual list of the world's ten best-dressed women (picked by a poll run by the New York Dress Institute) had the same Old Look. The Duchess of Windsor topped it (for the third time). Mrs. Harrison Williams, as usual, was among those present, and so were Mrs. John C. Wilson and Mrs. William Paley (who used to be present as Mrs. Stanley Mortimer Jr.). Mrs. Howard Hawks, who was in No. 1 position last year, was in No. 8 this time. Actress Ina Claire, on the list for the first time, was already weary...
...worth an estimated $50 to $100 million, and he had great & good friends on both sides. For Old Friend Hermann Göring, he acted as a go-between in the Russo-Finnish war and helped work out a truce. For Old Friend Edward, Duke of Windsor, he provided his 320-ft. yacht Southern Cross (once owned by Howard Hughes) to take the Duchess from Nassau to Florida to have an infected tooth removed...
Baltimoreans, observing their city's 150th anniversary, nominated their greatest citizen. The late Financier-Philanthropist Johns Hopkins won first place, the late Cardinal Gibbons second, Edgar Allan Poe, third. Way down the list, but on it with 21 votes: the Duchess of Windsor...
Other Houses, however, balked at the idea of femininity in their forthcoming productions and either dispensed with heroines or offered buxom upperclassmen in their stead. Puritanical Eliot will even forbid women in their "Merry Wives of Windsor" audience...