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George VI paced up & down the palace garden last week, waiting for a crew of cameramen who never showed up. George had agreed to pose for a colored movie to illustrate the national anthem in Britain's movie houses. On the appointed day all available color cameras were busy and nobody had bothered to tell the King, who eventually stomped back to the palace. TIME'S London Correspondent Alfred Wright last week cabled some other glimpses of George and his family...
Then Communists flooded toward the square by the thousands, chanting the national anthem like a samba. Their banners said: "We want bread," "We are for democracy," "Break with Spain." At the square they met the mounted police who, faces tight with fear, forced them back. Then, reported Correspondent Newton, "a man mounted on others' shoulders told the crowd, 'They cannot stop the meeting. This is still a democracy...
...choir began singing the Te Deum. Two boy scouts, bearing a chair, approached the old woman. Firmly, almost indignantly, she motioned the chair away. She stood through the hymn of jubilation and through the national anthem, William of Nassau. "A Prince I am, undaunted, of Orange, ever free. . . . Let no despair betray you, my subjects true and good...
...tale: Corky, a dark-visaged spirochete 1/3000th of an inch tall, with a corkscrew body, a nose like a golf tee and spindly legs somewhat less hairy than those of Popeye's Alice, the Goon. As leader of the syphilitic saboteurs, he is Mayor of Chancretown, whose civic anthem is Down by the Old Blood Stream. At the Royal Gorge Café (where the population doubles hourly), his constituents sing...
...foot the Catholic faithful followed. A gantlet of Marxists thundered their anthem...