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Sent back to London in 1956, he regularly gave his Soviet embassy contacts copies of Admiralty documents. He arranged some meetings by drawing a chalk circle on the trunk of a plane tree, others by dialing Kensington 8955 and asking for "Miss Mary." Last May British counterspies finally caught on, and in September he was arrested with 140 photos of Admiralty documents whose exposure, in the court's words, "would gravely damage the State's security...
...recently moved into a new apartment-no one seemed quite sure just who occupied it before. After Vassall's confession was published in the dailies, her phone rang incessantly, she complained, but it was always somebody asking for "Miss Mary." The post office obligingly changed her number from Kensington...
...royal family's third-string Kensington Palace has seldom made news since the Duchess of Kent had a daughter there in 1819-and even then no one suspected that the gel would one day be Queen of England and Empress of India. Last week Queen Victoria's birthplace was less happily back in the headlines. In the House of Commons, a Labor M.P. suggested tartly that "at this time, when there are thousands of homeless in London," the government showed "deplorable priority sense" in spending $238,000 in public funds to repair the palace for its new occupants...
...commercial airliner-but had the entire first-class section barred to other passengers. Commented Lord Beaverbrook's Sunday Express: "Another little touch of apartheid to ensure that the democratic idea is not carried too far." Britons were also irked by reports that a new hotel abuilding near Kensington Palace has been forced to reduce its height by several floors so the royal couple will not be observed by penthouse peepers...
...mild case of sour grapes: "Lord Snowdon sharpens his artistic genius for readers of the Sunday Times." Cassandra (William Connor), London Daily Mirror columnist, was moved by amusement: "Now Tony Snowdon, as the Observer calls him [to Cassandra, Tony was 'a royal Dicky-bird'], has flown from Kensington Palace to the jungle that is Fleet Street. In a trice, the macaws, the parrots and other screaming birds in the inky undergrowth have set up a-screeching and a-yelling that splits the eardrums...