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...Duke of Windsor & his Duchess sailed from Manhattan for France, where she will remain while he goes to England to visit Queen Mary for the first time in nine years. The ex-Governor of the Bahamas admitted that a new job might be in the offing: "Though I'm past the half-century mark [51], I still feel that I can be useful." (Columnist Walter Winchell waved the couple a warm goodbye: "Good riddance to them both-the snobs...
Princess Elizabeth, niece of the Duke of Windsor whose equestrian mishaps were stock gag fodder in the '20s, came a cropper herself on the Balmoral Castle grounds in Scotland, got some nasty leg bruises when her horse threw her against a tree...
...King with a Flutter. But the Duke and Duchess of Windsor were gay. After five years of living death in the tranquil Bahamas, the world's most publicized hedonists were fluttery with the anticipation of returning to Paris. Their elegant mansion at 24 boulevard Suchet in the fashionable Passy quarter had not been molested by the Germans. It was ready to receive the ducal pair. Weeks ago the Duchess had cabled her instructions to the decorators (her bedroom was to be midnight blue and white). Another cable had brought the Paris hat now in the high hatbox...
...lusty Windsor itself, across the river from Detroit, things were even worse. First, a lonely, tipsy man was stabbed and critically wounded on a deserted street for no reason that police could find. Several days later the stabbed body of a mechanic was found in a weed-grown field. Then, within 150 yards of the same spot, the body of Canadian Sergeant Hugh Blackwood Price was found; he, too, had been knifed. Next, a night watchman at a Windsor garage was brutally clubbed to death with a hammer, apparently by would-be robbers...
...Windsor's harassed 109-man police force called in U.S. and Canadian detective help, rounded up some 30 suspects (at week's end, police admitted that none of the suspects looked likely). In London, Ontario, a meeting of police chiefs was told that the worst might be yet to come, that an upsurge of crime might be expected in the troublesome demobilization and reconversion days that lay ahead...