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...girl, 17, last week started the 21-mile swim. The girl was pulled out of the water after two hours. Two men finally made it: Phil Rising, 41, an English watchmaker, and Abdel Latis Abou Heif, 22, an Egyptian student. Next day Ned Barnie, 54, a science teacher in Edinburgh, became the fourth man in history to swim the Channel in both directions. ¶ Lloyd Prest is a hot (mid 70s) golfer in southern Australia; Mick O'Donnell shoots in the high 90s. Over a drink, Prest bet he could beat O'Donnell using a pickax handle...
...show has been selling out every night. The attitude of the Koblenz city fathers: let Edinburgh, Salzburg and Bayreuth have the heavy stuff. At the present rate, the City of the Operetta Festival can expect 100,000 customers by the end of summer...
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, has visited Canada only once-a few hours' shore leave in Halifax in 1941 when he was 20 years old. "He looked just like any other Royal Navy midshipman," remembers a Halifax girl. "He seemed to be growing out of his uniform." Philip's wife, Princess Elizabeth, has never been in Canada at all, though her uncle, the Duke of Windsor, owns an Alberta ranch, and her parents, King George and Queen Elizabeth, toured the Dominion in 1939. The heiress-presumptive to the British throne has, in fact, visited only...
Last week, for the fifth time in the 400 years since Henry VIII broke with Rome, a top member of the British royal family paid an official courtesy call on the Pope.* Princess Elizabeth, with her husband the Duke of Edinburgh, had a 25-minute audience with Pius XII at the start of a two-week vacation in Italy...
...Universities of London, Edinburgh, and Birmingham will offer summer courses in history, literature, philosophy, and music especially designed for juniors and seniors. Many fellowships are available for both undergraduates and graduates in Europe and Latin America...