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...Baker Jr. on her 13,000-acre Horseshoe Plantation. The Baker family has been associated with the House of Morgan for several decades, but Young is often the best of social friends with his business enemies. His hunting companions at the Baker estate were the Duke & Duchess of Windsor, with whom Young and his wife are on first-name terms. The Windsors are spending the rest of the season with the Youngs at Palm Beach...
...readership polls Caniff seldom beats out Ham Fisher's hammy Joe Palooka or Chic Young's just-folksy Blondie. But his comparatively small (31 million) audience is, comparatively speaking, a class audience. It includes collegians (from Harvard to Siwash) and their professors, the Duke of Windsor, Margaret Truman, John Steinbeck†- and, significantly, hundreds of newspaper executives. Two years ago, when a score of syndicate salesmen began to spread the word of a new, as yet unnamed and undrawn comic by Caniff, they had nothing to sell but Caniff's name. For U.S. publishers, that was enough...
...Howard Hawks, the Hollywood producer's wife, who was not among the top ten the year before. The rest of the latest ten-best-dressed were mostly old familiars who had been on & off various lists for years-e.g., Mrs. Harrison Williams, the Duchess of Windsor, Mrs. William Rhinelander Stewart...
...transformation for them, as it had for Scrooge. Instead, they chuckled grimly over a bitter Christmas jest, "Starve with Strachey, shiver with Shin-well" (Fuel Minister Emanuel Shinwell)*, watched the delivery of the King's traditional gift of a hundredweight of coal to the needy of four Windsor parishes, read hungrily about the progress of a British freighter, the Highland Monarch, as it butted through the foggy Atlantic. Aboard were 250,000 turkeys from Argentina, which would help feed many a hungry Briton this Christmas...
...Duke & Duchess of Windsor & their clothes went dancing in the ballroom of Manhattan's Hotel Plaza, achieved the classiest photograph of their visit so far-he in white tie & tails and a boyish grin, she in a rustly formal with a sort of dorsal...