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...Windsor Castle Edward VIII last week inspected the Coldstream Guards. Visiting the barracks he found a Sergeant Jenkins, lately transferred from the Welsh Guards. Sergeant Jenkins was the proud possessor of a photograph of the finish of a regimental foot race which a drummer-boy named Davis was winning, with Edward of Wales running second and Sergeant Jenkins a close third...
...folk who ceremoniously assert every year that the "rightful" King is the descendant of beheaded Charles I's daughter Henrietta. Current pretender is Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria.* This year the various Stuart societies postponed their technical treason two months out of consideration for the House of Windsor's bereavement...
Divorced. Beauteous Eileen Bennett Fearnley Whittingstall, onetime No. 1 British tennist; by Painter Edmund Owen Fearnley Whittingstall; in London. Charges: misconduct with Marcus March, trainer of Windsor Lad, 1934 Derby winner...
...subcommittee of three which first investigated Judge Ritter voted 2-to-1 against recommending impeachment. In January the full Judiciary Committee voted 12-to-7 to drop the charges. Same day Florida Congressman Robert Alexis Green, who wears a flowing Windsor tie, uprose on the House floor, made a rousing speech against Judge Ritter. Three weeks later the Judiciary Committee reversed itself by voting (10-to-8) an impeachment resolution. The constitutional "high crimes and misdemeanors" of which the Democratic majority accused Republican Judge Ritter: He granted an exorbitant fee of $75,000 to his onetime Partner Albert L. Rankin...
...Avenue. In these Magnin's sells dresses as low as $22.75. But prices in general are near the top. Highest price ever paid for Magnin's ready-to-wear apparel was $1,500 for a dyed ermine suit with cloth-of-gold blouse, bought by cinemactress Claire Windsor in 1925. Magnin's will take only lines that it can handle exclusively in its territory. One of its West Coast exclusives is Hattie Carnegie gowns. Magnin keeps a buyer in Paris to watch styles, purchase creations by Lanvin, Vionnet, Patou, Schiaparelli, Chanel, Molyneux...