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Still, the police took no chances. Not only did they comb St. Paul's daily for bombs but, the night before the wedding, prowled miles of sewer system under the city looking for explosive devices. For extra precautions on the big day, the Queen's Household Cavalry rode an unusually tight formation around her coach. Her personal police officer, Commander Michael Trestrail, sat near Charles in the cathedral, dressed appropriately in morning clothes, and the bride and bridegroom had a detective disguised as a footman riding their coach (not to mention the 400 plainclothesmen mingling with the onlookers...
...soap, detergents and toilet goods; in Memphis. After World War II, Little concentrated on expanding Colgate-Palmolive's overseas plants and operations until they accounted for half of the company's revenues. By the time he stepped down in 1960, sales totaled $600 million for such household staples as Colgate toothpaste and Ajax cleanser...
...movies by collaborating with an alcoholic writer named F. Scott Fitzgerald (whom he later commemorated in the novel The Disenchanted) and wrote several film classics, including On the Waterfront and A Face in the Crowd. Today neither Benjamin Percival ("B.P.") Schulberg nor his son Budd is precisely a household-or Hollywood-name. But that odd obscurity is what lends Budd's memoir Moving Pictures its poignance and fascination...
...always argued that no occupation was "so delightful to me as the culture of the earth." Now he had the chance to prove it, every morning after breakfast. Dinner, served at 4, constituted the social hour. The patriot gathered his clan about him: his daughter Martha, who ran the household, plus a varying assortment of twelve grandchildren, as well as random aunts, sons-in-law and omnipresent house guests...
...make the females more active. In "The Twelve Huntsmen," she has the prince collapse at the key moment, not the girl. The Maid of the North, in the original version, fends off a suitor by talking up the disadvantages of leaving home to join a stranger's household...