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TIME cannot undertake to portray the Duke and Duchess of Windsor as shimmering dream children in order to spare the feelings of incurable romantics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 27, 1941 | 10/27/1941 | See Source »

Headquarters were in the Olympic Hotel, where elderly Dan Tobin, boss of the teamsters, had already grabbed the best rooms. The Olympic's management had just redecorated its penthouse apartment and named it the Royal Suite, in the hope that the Duke of Windsor, Canada-bound might be the first occupant. The pent house contains seven bedrooms, five bathrooms, reception hall, bar, library, salon, dining room, recreation room, kitchen, service pantry and a terrace sprouting green grass, flowers and shrubs. By the time President Green arrived, Mr. Tobin and his party of eleven teamster officials (four with wives) were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Bosses & Suites | 10/13/1941 | See Source »

Died. Mary Kirk Simpson, 45, successor to the present Duchess of Windsor as wife of Ernest Simpson; in Wiltshire, England. She introduced Wallis to Simpson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 13, 1941 | 10/13/1941 | See Source »

...Duchess, while not photogenic, wrote the feminine press, was much more attractive than her 45. The scurrying, roaring crowds saw little but a flash of a bareheaded, blond little man in a grey suit getting in & out of cars, saw only the waved hand of Wallis Windsor of Baltimore, who almost became Queen of England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: The Windsors in Washington | 10/6/1941 | See Source »

...citizens will have only fleeting glimpses of the Duke of Windsor and his Duchess when the couple go to Canada. The U.S. State Department has issued them only transit visas, ∙ ∙ After a three-month separation the First Lady of Ethiopia has left Britain to join Haile Selossie in Addis Ababa, ∙ ∙ When the Mayor of Wilkes-Barre, Pa. learned Fiorello H. LaGuardia would stop at the city airport en route from Syracuse to New York City, he declared a public holiday. New York City's hedgehopping Mayor flew over the field, circled several times, winged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Sep. 1, 1941 | 9/1/1941 | See Source »

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