People, Feb. 5, 1940

Lickety-split from a blizzardy Georgia vacation went William Lyon Phelps to New Haven, to see a Yale production of Timon of Athens, which put him one step closer to his life-long ambition: to see all of Shakespeare's plays before he dies. Of the Bard's putative 37 dramas, Emeritus Professor Phelps, 75, has now seen all but Two Gentlemen of Verona, three-part Henry VI.

The Duchess of Windsor and the Duchess of Kent tied for first place in a Paris dressmakers' poll naming the world's ten "best-dressed" women. Deposed was Mme Anterior Patfno, now No. 3. Newcomers: Mrs. James H. R. Cromwell, No....

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