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...attendants were mostly immigrants: at the pool at the Buckingham Palace Road Baths there was a Jamaican and a Pakistani, and at the Chelsea Baths there was a group of Spaniards and Irish women. At Chelsea the women sighed over the Irish troubles while the boys--lifeguards and men's room attendants--sparred with each other at the edges of the pool. Often when I came in to hand in my ticket and get my locker key I'd have to go in search of one of these women; they were forever making and drinking cups...
...BUCKINGHAM PALACE the staff were all men except for the ticket seller, because the cubicles were by the pool and there was no need for a ladies changing room attendant. The first time I came in about eleven o' clock one morning. the pool was overrun with schoolkids, and a harried young man in elastic slacks was shouting at them from the far end. An old man approached me for my ticket and I asked him. "Is it all right to swim now? Won't I be in the way of all the kids...
...have seen her, offstage as well as on, are likely to disagree. When an errant pigeon flew in her apartment window, what could she do but ask, "Any messages?" When a waiter at Buckingham Palace spilled hot soup down her neck, her retort was, of course, "Never darken my Dior again." Miss Lillie, in fact, has long since passed into a sort of performers' nirvana and become a model for zany aunts and dowagers. She was, the various authors have told her, the inspiration for Mary Poppins, Auntie Mame and Madame Arcati in Blithe Spirit...
...show is out of the tulips and onto the rocks. Miss Vicki has left Tiny Tim and taken ten-month-old Tulip Victoria with her. Miss Vicki (née Victoria Budinger) plans to pursue a modeling career. An also a male model, says Tiny Tim (né Herbert Buckingham Khaury), who is starting action for a legal separation "to get the jump on her." Nonsense, said a spokesman for 19-year-old Miss Vicki, "All the fellow was doing was showing her the ropes." However that may be, "The wedding ring will always stay on my finger," trilled Tiny...
Britain labored under a Dickensian midwinter gloom last week. Off went the garish neons of Piccadilly Circus. After twilight, Big Ben could be heard but not seen. Buckingham Palace was lit by candles and hand torches. Millions of Londoners went to and from work beneath dimmed streetlights. Thirty crews of firemen helped rescue people who were trapped in stalled elevators. Dramatizing the nation's power shortage, one BBC newscaster had to read his bulletin by candlelight. A general synod of the Church of England also was conducted-perhaps fittingly-by candlelight, but that was not what the prelates...