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...worst homecoming present that Bridegroom Antony Armstrong-Jones got on his return to London from his Caribbean honeymoon was news that his well-tailored effigy had mysteriously vanished from Madame Tussaud's famed wax museum. Last week, in an outdoor phone booth only a mile from Madame's, the waxen Tony was found. When "Tony" was escorted back to the waxworks, London bystanders did several double takes at what appeared to be Princess Margaret's true love on his way home after an extremely rough night...
When the hour arrived for the honeymoon couple's departure on the yacht Britannia, Dimbleby met the severest test of his career: Margaret and Tony were late, leaving Dick Dimbleboom to fill the BBC air with 55 minutes of spontaneous prose. It was a pukka job, a splendid sort of flight of the Dimbleby. He talked fluently of the Thames, sturdily of Tower Bridge, thickly of the city's occasional fog. Five helicopters coptered overhead. Mounting to lance, Dimbleby told his audience: "If I had a really good air gun, I'd know what to do with...
There were still muttered complaints. "What a grudging mood seems to have set in," complained Daily Express Columnist Godfrey Winn. Labor M.P.s protested the expense (an estimated $112,000) of the Caribbean honeymoon aboard the royal yacht Britannia. There was grumbling over the Palace's refusal to let the young couple drive in an open car through London on their way to embarking, and the banning of any sightseeing craft from the vicinity of the yacht itself. But when the great day finally arrives this week, it could be safely predicted that all Britain will be vibrating like...
Trujillo and the Reds have played pata-cake before. In the postwar flush of good will toward Moscow, the dictator praised Russia "as one of the forces for progress," and legalized Communists as "eloquent rebuttal to calumniators who accuse the Dominican Republic of not being a democratic country." That honeymoon with the Reds lasted less than a year, after which Trujillo turned about once more, again banned the Communists and even set up an investigating Committee on Un-Dominican Activities...
While Britain's Princess Margaret and her photographer fiance, Antony Armstrong-Jones, happily made plans for their honeymoon, a picture was going the rounds, making it seem that Tony had already been married to himself, about 70 years ago, and had a child, his spit and image. In fact, it was a trick photograph that Armstrong-Jones, posing as all three members of a proper Victorian family, had sent out as a Christmas card in 1954. All gags aside, irrepressible Margaret and Tony announced last week that they will honeymoon in the Caribbean on the royal yacht Britannia, which...