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When all the other boxes were checked in, they were transferred to a private house on Buckingham Place, Cambridge, for counting. Miss post neglected to take along the ballots from her own dormitory...
King George VI, 48, sat in an armchair at a formal investiture, while 300 people filed by him in the ballroom of Buckingham Palace. It was his first full state ceremony since his ailing leg began acting up last November...
...month, Fleet Street had laid impatient siege to Buckingham Palace. The press wanted to take pictures of Princess Elizabeth's baby, and the palace press officers were in no hurry to oblige...
...King's doctors believe they have caught the illness at an early stage. He is up & around Buckingham Palace every day, limping slightly but not using a cane or crutch; usually he rests his foot on a pillow while working. Main medical treatment is described as an electric apparatus (which stimulates circulation), fitted around the thigh. Other possible treatments: rest in bed if there is pain; hot & cold baths; heat; drugs that dilate the arteries; a nerve-cutting operation...
Visiting Hours. At Buckingham Palace, Princess Margaret came bounding back from a weekend in the country, and went racing up the stairs to see her nephew. There were gifts to be opened, sheaves of telegrams to be acknowledged (the palace post office reported a record haul of 4,100 on one day), including one from President Truman, one from the Pope and one from General Eisenhower. "We are particularly happy," wired Ike, "because the birthday of the prince is the same as that of Mrs. Eisenhower." A six-foot battalion commander of the Home Guard sent a sweater knitted...