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Lloyd George was asked; but he said he was too old. The Duke of Windsor hinted that he would like the job; but he was not asked. Across London's area of rumor, a whole parade of names passed-familiar names, unfamiliar names, here a man who knew Britain's needs intimately, there one who could talk slices of turkey with Mr. Knudsen...
Summoning reporters, Plastic Surgeon I. Daniel Shorell (TIME, Aug. 12) announced in Manhattan: "The British press has made urgent inquiry from me within the last 24 hours as to whether I performed a face-lifting operation on the Duchess of Windsor. ... I wish categorically to deny that I performed such an operation in Miami. Furthermore, may I suggest that you of the press accept official announcements of the Duke and Duchess. I was absent from the city to operate on another prominent person-not the Duchess. Furthermore, I shall soon go to the Bahamas on a pleasure trip...
...Thank you," said George Windsor, who some day may need a union card...
...Embassy as smoothly as a Wall Street office, and because he is the kind of American who could never become Anglicized. The King and Queen invited him to a farewell lunch at Buckingham Palace. Government bigwigs streamed in & out of the Embassy office at No. 1 Grosvenor Square. The Windsor horse-mounted Home Guards trotted around to say goodby. The Evening News declared gratefully: "It is Mr. Kennedy single-handed who has strengthened Anglo-American friendship in London." The Times paid him the frankest tribute: "Whether he comes back to us or not, he has earned the respect...
When a German incendiary bomb marked J. P. K. burned itself harmlessly out beside his Windsor house, U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's Joseph Patrick Kennedy said: "Initials don't count...