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...Duke of Windsor, ex-Governor General of the Bahamas, reported househunting in summering socialite Newport, said no he had "no intentions of ... buying property in America...
Your statement (TiME, March 26) that the Duke of Windsor is "technologically unemployable, an obsolete man" shocked many of us in the film industry. We take issue with you on your flip and curt dismissal of a man who is one of the colorful figures of our time. As spokesman for a group of actors, writers and directors, I have today cabled the Duke of Windsor offering to form an independent producing company to star him in a pic-turization of his own life story, or a story of his own choosing, or the post of technical adviser...
King George VI added color and dash to a tree-planting ceremony at Windsor by appearing in a new Scottish border tweed suit (three-inch redline squares against a light brown background) which cost him some 26 of his annual allotment of 48 clothing coupons. A West End tailor, moodily studying the cloth and cut, predicted that His Majesty's new ensemble would be a fashion setter...
London's Colonial Office stiffly announced: His Royal Highness the Duke of Windsor has resigned, effective on April 30, as Governor and Commander in Chief of the Bahamas. The resignation, said the Government, need occasion no surprise: the Governor's "normal tenure" of five years is almost up. The Bahamas have enjoyed a greater measure of prosperity since the Duke took office...
...Nassau's palm-fringed Government House a barrage of phone calls and cables descended. For half a day the Duke of Windsor was not at home to any queries. Then he donned a dapper, grey check suit, pinned a red carnation in his lapel, and with his well-dressed Duchess at his side, gallantly went forth to meet the press and explain his second abdication...