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...Philippe. He lived grandly and, despite his success, always just beyond his means. He published two volumes of his adventures, illustrated with his own drawings and displaying an exuberant narrative style. He described the Blackfoot-Crow country as a land "where the buffaloes range with the elk and the fleet-bounding antelope; where wolves are white and bears grizzly; where the rivers are yellow ... the dogs are all wolves, women are slaves, men all lords." All this was imbued with a sympathy for the Indians shared by few of his countrymen, full as they were of their vision of manifest...
...Fleet Street had the scene almost as well staked out. The Sun stationed 40 reporters with walkie-talkies all along the route, and the Daily Mail had 25. The only crime story remotely connected with the wedding broke on the day itself. It came out that ten days earlier, in Gloucestershire, two Buckingham Palace footmen, Stephen Beevis, 20, and Andrew Gildersleeve, 22, had been nabbed in a stolen Land Rover carrying 80 sticks of gelignite, batteries and assorted pieces of mining equipment. The story was kept under wraps, but Scotland Yard searched the Buckingham Palace quarters where Beevis and Gildersleeve...
America's official representative was a never-stop. From the moment Nancy Reagan arrived in London she kept a hectic social pace, which included a meeting with the Queen at which she failed to curtsy. Fleet Street regarded this as a snub, although Buckingham Palace made it clear that Mrs. Reagan was not required to bend a knee. With that settled, the spiffy-looking President's wife quickly turned the tide, and by the time she appeared for the Hyde Park fireworks display on Tuesday night she received an ovation second only to the Queen...
...London Sun, calling itself the Royal Sun for the big week, stationed 40 reporters with walkie-talkies along the processional route. Die Aktuelle, the West German women's magazine, ferried its reporters and photographers around in two planes, two helicopters, two speedboats (for the Thames) and a fleet of cars and bicycles...
...Wear Daily produced the most inventive coverage of the week, presenting a bogus drawing of Lady Diana's bridal gown the day before the ceremony. "We said this could be a hoax before we ran it," said Publisher John Fairchild. "I thought it made a very amusing story." Fleet Street was at its creative best, too, telling readers what Charles whispered to Diana at intimate moments. And how did the newspapers find out? They hired lip readers...