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...chill of a gathering fog, porters loaded 97 pieces of baggage aboard the big-bellied BOAC Stratocruiser Canopus* at floodlit London Airport. Just before midnight, as hundreds of well-wishers cheered, Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh got aboard; it was the first overseas flight for an heir to the British throne. At 12:31 a.m., the Canopus took off into the mist. Back on the tarmac, Queen Elizabeth blew a last kiss, said to a companion: "I'm full of envy...
While their parents, Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh, were busy packing for their trip to Canada and the U.S. (see THE HEMISPHERE), the royal train carrying Princess Anne and Prince Charles home to London from Balmoral stopped at Aberdeen. The young prince decided to have a peek at the outside world, hefted his little sister to the nearest window to share the view, where a photographer got a picture of the wide-eyed little tourists...
...royal family were all gathered near by. The Queen had cut short her Balmoral holiday a week before. The Duke of Gloucester had canceled a shooting trip to hurry to London. Princess Margaret flew down from Scotland. Princess Elizabeth and her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, called off their plan to sail to Canada; they planned to fly over later if all went well. Even the Duke of Windsor, the elder brother whose abdication made George king, was on hand...
Veteran Conductor Bruno Walter led the orchestra the first night, drew an overflow crowd of 3,000 (300 standees). He reached back more than a century for his first two numbers: Weber's Euryanthe overture and Mozart's Symphony No. 39. Edinburgh applauded but was hardly swept away. But in the second half, Walter & Co. won a real ovation with Mahler's powerful Symphony No. 4 (1901). Fusing strings perfectly with the horns, the visitors gave Mahler* a sheen that few Britons had heard before. They whistled and shouted, called Conductor Walter back to the podium...
...biggest hits of the Edinburgh Festival is young (27) U.S. Tenor David Poleri. A Philadelphian who began to study voice only five years ago, Poleri got little attention in his own country until he made his debut in Manon at the New York City Opera this spring (TIME, April 2)-and had some listeners mentioning him in the same breath with Caruso. As Don Alvaro in Verdi's bloody La Forza del Destino last week, Poleri had the same kind of effect on Edinburgh. Wrote the critic of the London Daily Express: "The kind of tenor singing which...