The Duchess' Tooth

Into Miami last week swooped the yacht Southern Cross, carrying the world's best-known divorcee to the dentist. It was the first time the Duchess (nee Bessie Wallis Warfield, of Baltimore) had been in her native U. S. since 1933. A lot of things had happened in that time, including her marriage to a third husband, who turned out to be the ex-King of England.

Her ex-countrymen were just as thrilled as she. Selected to lead a reception committee up the yacht's gangplank, Mrs. Jessie Byron, daughter of Florida's Governor Frederick Preston Cone, gasped: "No. 1, dear me, I can't stand it." She faded back into second place and let Banker Percy Rivington Pyne II of New York lead the way. Between double lines of dark-spectacled police the Duke and Duchess stepped down the gangplank, rode off through the packed streets of Miami. The Duchess wore a two-piece ensemble of dull navy crepe, hip-length coat and cap with feathered mercury wings. She wore her jeweled flamingo on her shoulder, diamonds on her ears. She smiled at the cheering crowds from under a nose-length, peekaboo, white-dotted veil. Her husband gaily waved.

At week's end, the infected tooth which had been bothering the Duchess had been pulled, and she was reading her fan mail in a hospital, nursing a sore jaw.

The Duke, who had scarcely left her side, seized the opportunity to visit their three pet Cairns, Pookie, Detto and Preezie, quartered temporarily in an animal clinic. Pookie has been with the Duke since his abdication.

Two days later, the Duke left the Duchess' side again, this time to hop into a U. S. Navy plane and pay a call on President Roosevelt, whom he had not seen since 1919. Returning from his visit aboard the Tuscaloosa, the Duke told reporters that he and the President had discussed naval bases and CCC camps, which he thought he might try in the Bahamas.

At week's end the Duchess suffered a slight setback, after she was moved from the hospital to the Miami-Biltmore Hotel. The Southern Cross had developed some bearing trouble in her port propeller shaft. Pookie had a touch of eczema. But the Windsors expected that everything would be all right for their return this week to Nassau. The happy, busy Duke promised to come back after the first of the year for another, longer visit.

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