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Eddie Cantor lost Saucer-eyed Eddie Cantor (born Edward Israel
Iskowitz in 1892) did it all, starring in vaudeville, burlesque, on the legitimate stage, radio, and television. Orphaned at age two on the
Lower East Side of New York City, he was raised by his grandmother.
As a lad, he clowned and sang for coins on street corners. He was a blackface song and dance performer in vaudeville, later toured with several theater companies, appeared in Broadway reviews, was a hit with The Chase and Sanborn Hour on radio beginning in 1931 and running through 1949, and he hosted the half-hour The Eddie Cantor
Variety Theater on television, a show that was syndicated in 1955. He died in 1964.
7 The only “break” You know, it’s a funny thing. The harder I work, the luckier I seem to get This quote attributed to golfer Arnold Palmer (and in variations to many other professional athletes and other personalities) sums up what Hill means when he talks about self- made breaks that result from persistence that is derived from a clear, well-defined and strong sense of purpose. 8 I have noway b The affair between the twice-divorced Wallace
Warfield Simpson and Edward, Duke of Windsor, who gave up his throne to marry her, remains the love story of the 20th century. Edward) held the title of Prince of Wales in 1931, when he first met Mrs. Simpson (1896-1986), born a British subject but by then a US. citizen. Overtime, he fell hopelessly in love. When she divorced her second husband—wealthy shipping magnate Ernest Simpson—in
October 1936, Edward had been King of England fora scant nine months. His announced intention to marry Wallace Simpson offended both British traditionalists and the Church of England hierarchy and provoked a governmental crisis. On December 10, 1936, Edward abdicated the throne in a radio broadcast to the nation, within part,
these words I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility and to discharge my duties as King as I would wish to do without the help and support of the woman I love The new king,
George VI, created the title of Duke of Windsor for his older brother,
and on June 3, 1937, Edward and Wallace were married in France. Ina slight to Wallace that Edward never forgave, King George refused to grant her the title of Duchess of Windsor. From 1937 to 1939 and after when World War II ended, the Duke and Duchess resided mainly in France, lived a café-society existence, and became the subject of countless magazine articles and books through the years.
Her memoirs, The Heart Has Its Reasons, were published in After the Duke’s death in 1972, Wallace kept on her dressing room table a gold-framed message from the Duke. It read:
My Friend, with thee to live alone
Methinks were better than to own
A crown, a scepter, and a throne.
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