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George VI had been up once before as King (90 miles from Windsor to Martlesham Heath) when last week he stepped into his scarlet and blue twin-engined Airspeed Envoy. From Sandringham he flew 60 miles to Cranwell, Lincolnshire, to inspect, as Marshal of the Royal Air Force, one of the nation's military aviation colleges. Ponderously, an official announcement said the King would "enplane"* for the trip back to Sandringham. Said British dispatches afterward: "The nation breathed easier tonight when it learned over the wireless that King George had completed safely in blustery conditions his return flight...
...officers of the 1st The Royal Dragoons, whose honorary colonel he was till the War.* The other was from relatives who 22 years ago scorned him as unworthy of chivalry by having his banner, surcoat, helmet and sword removed from the chapel of the Order of the Garter at Windsor. The text of this message was not revealed but its signature was announced with pride: "Bertie, May, and Elizabeth" (i. e., George VI, Queen Mother Mary, and Queen Elizabeth...
...Shattuck Inn, Jaffrey 4.00 Spruce Mountain Lodge, Jackson 3.25 Spyglass Hill Farm, Warren 3.50 The Tavern, Peterborough 4.50 Thayer's Hotel, Littleton 2.00 Waterville Inn, Waterville V'll'y 4.50 VERMONT Bradford Inn, Bradford $3.50 Crostwood Hotel, Rutland 1.50 Middlebury Inn, Middlebury 4.50 White Hart Inn, Salisbury 6.00 Windsor Hotel, Windsor 1.50 MASSACHUSETTS The Northfield, East Northfield $4.00 Weldon Hotel, Greenfield 2.00 Williams Inn, Williamstown...
London's Windsorite Octavians (TIME, Oct. 4) dined & wined 150 strong on the second anniversary of the Duke of Windsor's accession as Edward VIII. Said the round-faced Rev. Robert Anderson Jardine, who married the Duke and Mrs. Simpson: "I am convinced in my heart that if ever there was a woman who could have sat on the throne of England. . . ." The ecstatic listeners here drowned his speech with cries of "Hear, hear!" "Thank...
...friend's house in Athens this week, before starting on their wedding trip; from His Majesty's Cabinet & Armed Forces a $10,000 emerald & diamond necklace; from the Greek Royal Yacht Club a yacht; from the President of France a tablecloth; from the Duke & Duchess of Windsor a gift (nature undisclosed) explained by announcing that "the Duke was an old friend of Prince Paul...