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Three Sisters & a Sergeant. In line with announcements that street clothes were to be worn at the ceremony, London's jewelers were busy converting tiaras into street-wear clips and brooches, London's tailors were peering into their darkest shelves because of a shortage of cashmere for striped trousering. On all sides would-be wedding guests were maneuvering for one of the precious invitations being addressed by a corps of Palace secretaries. Palace authorities refused to name the 2,000-odd included on the list. A few omissions were known: Elizabeth's uncle, the Duke of Windsor...
...four years, while the Italians overran his country, Ethiopia's Haile Selassie found refuge on a peaceful estate in Bath. "The asylum," he said later, "offered us ... in [our darkest] hour ... has been of inestimable value...
When the New York Herald's Henry Stanley found Dr. David Livingstone in darkest Africa, the Herald scored an exciting scoop.* Last week the Herald Tribune front-paged the results of another notable foray into dark territory: the report of a four-man team of Trib correspondents, on ten weeks behind the "Iron Curtain...
...Equatorial province, had fled to the hills after the fall of Khartoum. In England there was immense popular sympathy with his plight, and money was collected to rescue him. Stanley cut short his lecture tour to lead the expedition. His two-volume description of the epic journey was In Darkest Africa. Author Manning's less solemn account of it, based on other documents as well as Stanley's, trims its hero to life size...
...room, 46-story, $40 million super-palace on Park Avenue, with five ballrooms, a railway siding for private cars, luxury suites with a special entrance, and 2,600 employees. But the new Waldorf opened in 1931, in darkest depression, and it lost from $1 to $3 million a year. Boomer staved off bankruptcy by getting the New York Central to forgive much of the unpaid rent. He taught patrons to eat jellied madrilene in cantaloupe, and devised the now universal card-credit system that enabled the guest to get his bill in two minutes...