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...Britons, Cliveden is part of their country's history, from the distant past up to the present day. All good Englishmen recognize the date, 1668, cut into one lawn and remember how the "witty and wicked" George Villiers, second Duke of Buckingham, for whom Cliveden was built, abducted Lady Shrewsbury and then killed her pursuing husband while the Lady held the horses. They remember, too, the role of Cliveden in the appeasement years of Prime Ministers Baldwin and Chamberlain, when the "Cliveden set" met there on weekends planning how to circumvent...
...road for royal processions would be built from Buckingham Palace to Victoria Station...
...smiled broadly, walked straight to the Queen, over whom she towered by a full head & shoulders. Said Mrs. Roosevelt: "How nice to see you again. How are you?" Newsreels ground away as she chatted with the royal couple; the crowd let out a ready cheer as she drove to Buckingham Palace...
Reported in one edition of the London Daily Mirror, dropped before the next, was the engagement of a working girl to the Hon. Gerald David Lascelles, handsome, 18-year-old son of Britain's Princess Royal, nephew of George VI. Icy denials came from Buckingham Palace, but the girl's mother confirmed it. The bride-to-be, if bride she becomes, is slim, dark-haired, 17-year-old June Morris, who works in a factory canteen. "It doesn't matter to me who he is," she said in a declaration half out of Grimm, half...
...announcer for 16 years of the Amos 'n' Andy program. When Announcer Hay finished his first reading, the story of the Creation, listeners heard a genteel plug for his sponsor, Los Angeles' Forest Lawn Memorial-Park: its wrought-iron gates are bigger than those of Buckingham Palace...