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...Oxford there are two things named Isis -a river where undergraduates row, a newspaper in whose columns undergraduates row. Much water having flowed through the Isis locks since December 1936, when Edward of Britain demoted himself to David of Windsor, Oxford's Isis undergraduates last week urged his return home with his wife...
...following were given scholarships: A. Ross Borden Jr. '39, of Cambridge, Coleridge A. Braithwaite '39, of Cambridge, Edgar L. Haff Jr., '39, of Fort Edward, New York, H. Rushton Harwood Jr. '39, of Springfield, John H. Howland '39, of Windsor, Vermont, Bernard Kalman '39, of Roxbury, Leonard E. Leboeuf '39, of Webster, Joseph S. Wysan '39, of Milford, William H. Magruder '40 of Bethesda, Maryland, Walter D. Riddle Jr. '40, of Edgeworth, Pennsylvania, Holland L. Willard '40, of Lawrence, and William A. Braden...
Representing not much of anything, a Manhattan society called The Friends of The Duke of Windsor in America last week issued invitations to a forthcoming dinner. Printed on the inside of the invitation was a quotation from a leading Octavian, Author Compton Mackenzie (The Windsor Tapestry): "To hear the King speaking [1936] about peace was almost to restore one's belief that peace really was going to be achieved. The very timbre of his voice had a tonic quality. It was like a light dry wine." Leading Friends: Pastor Christian Ficthorne Reisner of Manhattan's Broadway Tabernacle...
Back in the U. S. after six months and ten days in Europe ("to save money in income tax"), Soprano Grace Moore defended her much-criticized curtsy to the Duchess of Windsor in Cannes last December: "She would have been a royal duchess long ago if she had not been an American. After all, she gave happiness and the courage of his convictions to one man, which is more than most women can do. She deserves a curtsy for that alone...
...French Riviera to spend Christmas with the Duke & Duchess of Windsor, sailed the Duchess' aunt and one-time chaperon, Mrs. D. Buchanan Merryman ("Aunt Bessie"), from Manhattan...