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...Comedian Will Fyffe, Scottish music-hall idol and Buckingham Palace favorite, who has sung prodigiously to British military forces—Commander of the British Empire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Honors | 6/22/1942 | See Source »

...yard run-First, Buckingham, Dartmouth, 2:26.3; second, Kelty, Andover; third, R. Farrington, Harvard; fourth, A. Lyon, Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMEN VICTORS IN TRIANGLE MEET | 2/26/1942 | See Source »

...really have no qualifications as an Ambassador. I remember when I came over here many years ago ... we were asked to tea at Buckingham Palace and wanted to be very correct. I remember getting a tall hat-the first I had ever worn-and a tail coat. We presented ourselves. But everybody wore a straw hat and a short coat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Ambassador's Clothes | 11/17/1941 | See Source »

King George ordered 20 tons of Buckingham Palace's railings and gates removed for conversion into armaments; promoted the Duke of Gloucester twice in one day, from air vice marshal to air marshal, from major general to lieutenant general. Belgium's King Leopold III, blond when he became a virtual prisoner of the Nazis in his own palace at Laeken, has turned grey. Lieut. Joseph Alsop Jr., ex-Washington columnist, resigned from the Navy, to work for Generalissimo Chiang in Chungking. Sumner Welles's son, Arnold, graduated from the Naval Reserve Officers' training school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Hearts & Thistles | 10/13/1941 | See Source »

...Buckingham Palace the Queen opened a letter addressed to "Her Majesty the Queen Personally." She read...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Lassies Stick Together | 10/6/1941 | See Source »

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