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Last week, Sir Edward came down to earth: he had just been made Principal of Scotland's great University of Edinburgh. When a TIME correspondent asked to see him, Sir Edward said he had neither the time nor the inclination to be interviewed. But, he added, he knew all about TIME style, and though it "shocked my modesty," would interview himself...
...will naturally expect no declaration of policy [about Edinburgh University] from me at this stage. But I firmly believe that a university must turn out men & women who are fit to live, as well as fit to earn a living . . . After all, we sleep for one third of our time, we work another third-but there is still a third left. Education should prepare one for the whole of one's waking life...
...celebrate the prince's birth. In Sydney, Australia, a streetcar motorman chalked "It's a boy" in huge white letters along the sides of his tram, while Cremorne Hospital hoisted a diaper with red, white and blue streamers to the very top of its flagstaff. Frugal Edinburgh gave its pupils a half-holiday in honor of Elizabeth's blond, blue-eyed baby and an Aberdeen woman celebrated her 100th birthday with the wish that Britain's princeling might live to celebrate...
George or Nick? King George* had settled the matter of his grandson's title by making him H.R.H. the Prince of Edinburgh. Much more interesting was the matter of a name. On Tuesday Philip had to register his son for a national identity card by number only. At the risk of a ?2 fine imposed by law on anyone not registering a child's name within 42 days, the royal infant's full name would not be decided upon until just before his baptism at Sandringham at Christmas time...
Born. To Princess Elizabeth, Duchess of Edinburgh, 22, and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, 27: their first child, a son; in Buckingham Palace, London. Weight:, 7 Ibs. 6 oz. Name: unannounced...