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...sails shining in the sun, gathered on the Medina estuary at Cowes on the Isle of Wight for one of Britain's biggest regattas since King George V went there to sail in 1935. This time, too, there was racing royalty on hand. The sports-loving Duke of Edinburgh left his queen at home, and by helicopter hastened out to the royal yacht Britannia, happy to escape temporarily from Buckingham pomp and ceremony. At sundown on each racing day bluebloods and commoners alike thronged Cowes's pubs or gathered on boats to roar out a night of song...
...Touch of Blackbeard. Conspicuously present at Cowes last week was the renaissance's principal architect: salty, roistering Uffa Fox, 57, one of the world's top yacht designers, boom companion and helmsman to the Duke of Edinburgh. He and Prince Philip fared no better than second, successively sailing in Uffa's 20-ton sloop Fresh Breeze, the Duke's Fox-designed Coweslip, and his slim Dragon-class sloop Bluebottle. But they had a fine time anyway. At his home, a converted waterfront warehouse, Uffa presided over the nightly after-dinner festivities that lasted until dawn...
...anybody nor assuming that I could, but obviously it is no good to say there are plenty of Americans who can meet [the necessary] specifications unless you can name at least one. I can name at least one. He began his public life as a Foreign Service officer in Edinburgh, Scotland. He came to Washington at the behest of a Republican Secretary of Agriculture . . . He held top posts in the Department of Agriculture under Presidents Coolidge, Hoover and Roosevelt ... He accepted special wartime assignments under Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Truman. He resigned from federal service to become president of Kansas...
After four reels of struggle and starvation, the Young Composer manages to play snatches from his symphony for the Great Conductor, who is entranced. "We will perform it at Edinburgh next month," he promises, and the average moviegoer can go home happily confident that the Young Composer is over the last hurdle on the highroad to success-and perhaps even to Hollywood Bowl. But composers in the audience will have one more worry about the hero: Where will he get the $1,000 or so to pay for having his symphony copied so that it can be played...
...four breathless days in London, the mayor chatted with the Duke of Edinburgh, invited Princess Margaret to New York "any time she pleases," toured the Houses of Parliament, boated on the Thames and dined at the Fishmongers' Hall. A rainstorm delayed the Wagners on their way to another dinner party at the U.S. embassy, kept Ambassador Winthrop Aldrich and the other dinner guests dawdling over their cocktails for a full hour. Wagner was on time for his visit with Queen Mother Elizabeth, however, and reported that the Queen "told me I could smoke, and reminded me that I smoked...