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Arriving in London, the Duke of Windsor had tea with Queen Mother Elizabeth, next day lunched with Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh on their fifth wedding anniversary...
Arnold J. Toynbee, the British historian who has worked harder than any living man to synthesize the meaning of the world's known past civilizations (he lists 26), took a long look into the future. Invited to speak last week at a philosophical society at Edinburgh University with no newspapermen present and without a prepared text, Historian Toynbee made a gloomy but provocative guess at the world in the year...
...Lydia Kirk. 78. At the Sixth Edinburgh Festival all but one of these musicians played in the magnificent Festival Piano Quartet: 1. Clifford Curzon...
...sweeps, the shooting party moved on to an artificial lake where white-jacketed gamesmen dragged roped bells across the water, sending about 100 wild ducks aloft. The guns went off again. Some of the high scorers of the day: Prince Bernhard of The Netherlands (132 birds), the Duke of Edinburgh (103), President Auriol (61). Following the morning's activity, lunch was served to the guests, including Queen Juliana, U.S. Ambassador James Dunn, SHAPE'S Matthew B. Ridgway, France's Premier Antoine Pinay. In the early afternoon gamekeepers returned to the morning's shooting grounds with bags...
...stiffly sensitive and none-too-popular Prince Albert, who complained that he was "only a husband and not the master in the house." His proper rank was not finally settled until four years before he died, when Parliament at last made him officially Prince Consort. Easygoing Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, is better liked by his wife's subjects and less bothered by form. Nonetheless, next June's Coronation is less than nine months away, and he needed to be put in his proper place. Last week Queen Elizabeth declared in a royal warrant that "His Royal Highness, Philip...