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Yugoslavia's sleekly handsome Regent, Prince Paul, is related to British royalty, was an Oxford classmate of the Duke of Windsor, has always been pro-British. Thousands of Yugoslavs, including many Government and military officials, are fervently anti-Nazi. Yugoslavia can field 950,000 men in her defense (and last week had called...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BALKANS: Yugoslavia Next? | 3/17/1941 | See Source »

...lifetime. So chromolithographically faithful are Painter Leigh's canvases of jungles, deserts, wild animals and horses that the American Museum of Natural History hired him to do backdrops for groups of stuffed animals. He paints pictures that royalty understands and likes: the Duke of Windsor and King Leopold of Belgium both own Leighs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ART: Nature Painter | 3/10/1941 | See Source »

Married. Lady Iris Mountbatten, cousin of George VI and great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria; and Captain Hamilton O'Malley, of the Irish Guards; at Haywards Heath, Sussex, England. Her cousin Lady Louis Mountbatten was a great friend of their cousin, Edward Windsor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 24, 1941 | 2/24/1941 | See Source »

...issue, signed A. G. Ellis, M.D.: "First, how could anyone be elegant in a pair of those inelegant, nondescript outmoded golf trousers?" Nondescript, inelegant, outmoded indeed!!! Where has Dr. Ellis been all of his life? I know a few who look elegant in them, H.R.H. the Duke of Windsor, Jimmy McLarnin [see cut], MacDonald Smith, Gene Markey, and several million English golfers and hikers. I personally possess 15 suits with golf trousers and wear them in Hollywood, at every appropriate occasion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 17, 1941 | 2/17/1941 | See Source »

...heroine of Ida is purportedly modeled on the Duchess of Windsor. That fact need trouble no one, short of a tenth reading or so. Ida is a woman who likes to rest, to talk to herself, to move around. In the course of her lifetime she has several dogs, marries several men (mostly Army officers), lives in several of the 48 States. She seems at times to be some sort of dim, potent symbol or half-goddess, sometimes a plain case of schizophrenia, sometimes a stooge for Miss Stein. In the long run, after several icily beautiful pages of suspense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Abstract Prose | 2/17/1941 | See Source »

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