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Wallis Warfield Spencer Simpson was Woman of 1936, but the Duke & Duchess of Windsor, with the assistance of Herr Hitler and Mr. Bedaux, eliminated themselves as completely as possible from an important place in the history of 1937. Their names would scarcely have been mentioned in print at year end, had not London's blatant Daily Express been filled by a story of how the Duchess sent a doll last week to the Miners' Federation of South Wales where King Edward VIII once popularized himself, declaring "Something must be done for Wales!" (TIME...
Exactly one year after Edward VIII's abdication appeared last week a new edition of Burke's Peerage, ranking the Duchess of Windsor in England as the 33rd Lady in the Land, ranking the Duke 4th (i.e., after his three brothers). It was next discovered last week that the new Debrett's Peerage, an equally standard work, ranks the Duchess as 8th Lady. Consulted about this discrepancy, the Royal College of Arms this week inclined to agree with Debrett's, but weaseled by declaring "only the King is able to state the exact position...
...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'II'y 4.50 VERMONT Bradford Inn, Bradford $3.50 Crestwood 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 6.00 NEW YORK Cooper Inn, Cooperstown...
...student's enthusiasm, they tend to make him doubt his own ideals. But still persisting, youth enters the world, the exhortations of commencement orators in his cars, only to find all doors closed. Deprived of his rightful command when in the prime of life, like the Duke of Windsor, he becomes discouraged and finally abandons hope...
...Merry Wives of Windsor" was presented after dinner to a front row of distinguished men including Alfred North Whitehead, professor of Philosophy, emeritus, Frank W. Taussig '79, Henry Lee Professor of Economics, emeritus, and former chancellor Heinrich Bruening, of Germany...