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...Ahead of the postilions, a State Guard of Household Cavalry clop-clopped proudly. Escorted by motorcycle outriders, the Comptroller of the Lord Chamberlain's Office, Lieut. Colonel Sir Terence Nugent, rode clasping a suitcase in which rested the Imperial Crown. Not since World War II began had the jewel-studded emblem left its sanctuary to be displayed...
...India itself, for they included the Empire and the world. The Wavell Plan was the first step toward Dominion status. When that was accomplished, India would become an equal partner in the Commonwealth, free (if she so desired) to secede from the Crown. Was Britain not risking "the brightest jewel of the British Crown?" Indians were not Britons linked by ties of blood and sentiment to the islands in the distant northern...
...Jewel. In Lexington, Ky., answering an ad which offered to sell a "Beautiful Man's Genuine Italian Heavy Cameo Ring," one eager woman wrote: "I don't care anything about the ring, but I'd like to bid on the beautiful...
That Ludendorff bridge thing (TIME, March 19): what a solid gold 23-jewel opportunity for future German schoolbook historians...
...extravagant dawn which one might only smile at on a calendar. That in turn meets more than its match in the pictures which follow-the first of those many gunbarrel shots of combat in color which, in their effortless achievement at once of superhuman force and grandeur and of jewel-like delicacy, might well make this film the envy of good poets and painters for the rest of time. Later on, over Truk and Kwajalein and the Marianas, these shots-plus some hair-raising ones of crash-landings on the carrier deck-heap one astonishment so thickly upon another that...