Word: buckingham
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...needn't have fretted on either count. The sun shone brightly over Buckingham Palace for their Majesties' second presentation garden party of the year. "It's a plummy peach of a day, isn't it?" said chic Peggy Douglas, wife of U.S. Ambassador Lewis Douglas, in the diplomatic tea tent. As for curtsies, the 100-odd Americans mingled with the 5,000 Britons at the party found it hard to get close to royalty. Mrs. Adele Vercoe, who is an old hand at such functions, having lived in England on & off for years, managed a quick...
When Gordon Richards broke his first big record, at England's Liverpool track 14 years ago, the news was considered important enough to be telephoned to Buckingham Palace. A mite of a man, son of a Shropshire coal miner, Jockey Richards, by riding 247 winning thoroughbreds in one season, had outdone Fred Archer's 1885 British record.* Richards' own comment hardly seemed up to the occasion. Said he: "It's been a very trying time for me and I'm very glad it's over...
...mood. The travelers had spent one last night aboard the Vanguard in Portsmouth (early-rising dockyard workers scrupulously observed a zone of silence about the ship so the family could sleep until 8 a.m.), but by 9 in the morning the London crowds had already begun to gather at Buckingham Palace, munching sandwiches on the curbs. Drab Government buildings were decked with flowers, and window boxes sprouted on all sides...
Ralph V. Summy, Jr. '50Nancy Claflin Holliston John T. Swing '50 Barbara Means Buckingham James B. Taylor '50 Katherine Calf Cambridge Joshua M. Twilley '50 Katharine Wadsworth Radcliffe Perry A. de Valpine '50 Janet Austin Simmons Joseph S. Vera '50 Nancy Horan Sacred Heart James G. Waddell '50 Ligi Goddard Seituate Richard A. Wallace '50 Margo Bulboan Winsor Richard B. Walsh '50 Perry Horvitz Wellesley Lauriston Ward, Jr. '50 Evelyn Cobb Boston J. P. LaWare '50 Janet McLanghlin Lasell Robert L. Ware '50 Alice Warner Wellesley Bennett C. Wilson '50 Diane Grubler Wellesley James F. D'Wolf, Jr. '50 Dickie...
Back home in Britain last week, the people were only slowly recovering from The Crisis. Some of the worst floods in history were wreaking havoc throughout the country. And at blitz-damaged Buckingham Palace 150 repairmen were holding a protest meeting in "disgust at being employed on such a site when the suffering of the working class through inadequate housing is deplorable." "Personally," Elizabeth told a South African M.P., "I feel rather guilty for being here enjoying myself when the people at home are suffering so." It was a statement worthy of a future Queen, not only because...