People, Oct. 17, 1955

Names make news. Last week these names made this news:

Acidulous Society Author Cleveland (The Proper Bostonians, The Last Resorts) Amory, 38, scudded into Manhattan after a voyage from England, licking psychic wounds that he picked up in a five-month running battle of wills with the redoubtable Duchess of Windsor. Hostilities loomed the very moment the duchess hired Amory to carry on the ghosting of her autobiography, a meandering treatise on which three years had already been spent. Amory summed it up:

'You can't make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm."...

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