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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...
...Buckingham Palace, just as she might have in some U.S. Middletown, the heiress to the throne had her own troop of Girl Guides, the 7th Westminster Company, organized by children of Palace staffers. The Queen gave the girls a company flag, and in time Elizabeth worked her way up to be patrol leader-"a distinction," her official biographers carefully point out, "achieved only through merit." At Windsor Elizabeth was the Bosun of the Kingfisher Patrol of the Sea Rangers (seagoing Guides), and woe betide any Ranger who came aboard the flagship (a whaleboat presented by King George) like a landlubber...
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...
...Town 18 young men (carefully matched in weight and height) were reported practicing on a three-inch bar suspended like a tightrope to perfect their balance when they took over as stewards on the royal train. Snapped the New Statesman's Kingsley Martin when this news reached London: "Buckingham Palace needs a sensible public-relations department. The King and Queen have a sufficiently burdensome job without this tomfool buildup...
...time of his death, professor Fraser was a trustee of the Cambridge Savings Bank, Treasurer of the Buckingham School, Trustee of the Avon Home, and a director of the East End Union...