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General Sir George Wentworth Alexander Higginson, age 100, height six feet, beloved as "The Father of the Guards," author of Seventy-One Years of a Guardsman's Life (1916), beamed exultantly last week at the news that the Grenadier Guards' minimum height requirement has again been raised to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: British Commonwealth of Nations: Six-Footers | 12/6/1926 | See Source »

The Foot Guards, comprising the Grenadier Guards, the Coldstream Guards and the Scots, Welsh and Irish Guards are perhaps the most glamorously traditional of any extant fighting unit. Recently Londoners turned out by the tens of thousands as the Regiments of Guards assembled in their bright uniforms and beneath their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: British Commonwealth of Nations: Six-Footers | 12/6/1926 | See Source »

Curious tots vexed their parents by piping: "How can you tell one kind of a Guard from another?" Super-papas and super-mamas might have replied: "Although they all wear scarlet tunics with blue collars, cuffs and shoulder straps, blue trousers and towering, rounded bearskin hats, you should note that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: British Commonwealth of Nations: Six-Footers | 12/6/1926 | See Source »

In the outer courtyard of the Palace a detachment of the Royal Household Cavalry (the Blues) were sitting at attention in their saddles and as the first pair of horses appeared through the entrance which connects the outer with the inner courtyard, a rasping order brought flashing swords to a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMONWEALTH: Parliament Opened | 12/22/1924 | See Source »

The first offering was Die Meistersinger, sung by artists selected for stature as well as for voice. All were six-or seven-footers, of Prussian-grenadier proportions. Herr Hermann Weil, of the Metropolitan's pre-War staff, took the role of Hans Sachs, the shoemaker-singer of Nürnberg.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bayreuth | 8/4/1924 | See Source »

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