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...Majesty's happy accession to the throne, there will be given by Mr. Doggett an Orange Colour Livery with a Badge representing Liberty to be rowed for by Six Watermen that are out of their time within the year past. They are to row from London Bridge to Chelsea. It will be continued annually on the same day forever...
Under the somber loom of London Bridge last week, six long-muscled watermen bent to their oars in six shells and began the long pull upstream to Chelsea. Traffic on the grey river ignored them, and they had to thread their way with care. Only a handful of spectator launches followed in their wake, but the six oarsmen were competing in the world's oldest boat race. After 2½ centuries, Thames rivermen still prize Thomas Doggett's loud livery and silver badge. The assurance that they will do so "forever" remains unbroken...
Boston is historical in other ways; and it is best seen by walking. If you start at Copley Square and walk north, you will come eventually to the docks, and can cross the Charles, if you like, to Charlestown and to Chelsea. On the way, the Public Gardens come first, and are somewhat bleak now and lack the swan boats, but there is, still, a picture-taking man with his venerable camera. Higher up, on Tremont Street and nearer the State Capitol, an old man used to sell catnip. He kept his stand next to the Old Granary Burial Ground...
Until he became First Baron Conesford of Chelsea, Henry George Strauss, 64, was a longtime (20 years) Tory M.P. whose dry, legalistic speeches often had the unhappy effect of emptying the House of Commons of all but its most conscientious members. But last week his lordship was the center of a controversy that gave him the biggest audience of his career. In effect he had raised a delicate question: Who is responsible for corrupting the English language...
Until last week, if asked for information about the Hill House School of London, only a handful of Britons would have been able to reply with anything more than a blank stare. Young (five years), small (102 boys), and inexpensive ($280), the school, in middle-class Chelsea, caters to the sons of professional and business men, with not a noble lord among them. But one day last week a black Ford pulled up to the door, and out jumped a chubby-cheeked new boy of eight. For England, this was big news indeed: His Royal Highness Prince Charles Philip Arthur...