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...asked astonished Britons. "The Duke and Duchess of Windsor - coming back to England? Really!" Nevertheless, British papers announced last week that the former King Edward VIII and his wife, the former Wallis Warfield Simpson, would soon return to Britain. They have lived in informal exile ever since Edward abdicated his throne (1936) to marry the Baltimore-born "woman I love." Court circles were stiffly unastonished, implying that they had known for weeks of King George VI 's approval of his brother's return. The homecoming was un officially scheduled for August, when the royal family will be rusticating...
...Duke of Windsor endorsed a $1,000 check from the Reader's Digest (for a little piece he had sent them last winter), handed it over to the New York Daily Mirror's fund to finance wounded servicemen's telephone calls home...
Ford Motor Co. suddenly announced that it thought it would be able to turn out chrome-trimmed cars. Ford officials did not elaborate, but best guess was that Ford would have chrome parts made in its restriction-free Windsor, Ont. plant, shipped to Detroit after paying duty...
...Duke & Duchess of Windsor dropped in on the Salvation Army in Manhattan-he in a brown and tan get-up with a black derby, she in a grey suit, matching beanie, sable scarf, pearl necklace, diamond clip, aquamarine-&-sapphire earrings. When the Duke shed his topcoat, a nosey bystander noted that it was a hand-me-down from the '30s, with a label inside the collar which read: "Prince of Wales...
...convivial ex-U.S. Army major and multi-uxorious automobile heir whose previous tries at matrimony have cost him a reputed $3,000,000 in settlements; and Lieut. Clara Tinsley, 27, U.S. Army nurse from Louis ville, Ky. ; he for the fourth time, she for the first; in Windsor, England...