People, Feb. 27, 1956

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

After sleeping through the night. Sir Winston Churchill awoke and learned that morning had brought big doings in his country home at Chartwell. Only a few steps from his bedroom, a kitchen oil stove had flared up, been doused by a maid and a house dick.

With her guard held high, the Duchess of Windsor charged out of the neutral corner where she had stood fast for two decades after marrying Britain's newly abdicated ex-King Edward VIII in 1937. Occasion: McCall's magazine this week began publishing...

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