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Later in the summer, Professor Johannes Brondsted, a Viking expert from Denmark, will stop by and look over the findings. He will also judge other "Norse" relics (mostly suspect) such as "mooring holes" on Cape Cod, and the Kensington stone, with its alleged runic inscriptions, which was found in Minnesota...
Married. Hans Kindler, 55, founder and conductor of Washington's 17-year-old National Symphony Orchestra; and Persis Myers Hill, 37, symphony-loving socialite; each for the second time; in Kensington...
Philip was first almost early, then almost late. He popped out of Kensington Palace at 11 o'clock, shook hands with a chimney sweep (for luck), glanced at his watch and popped back in again. At 11:05 he and his best man, the Marquess of Milford Haven, set out in a limousine for the Abbey, after Philip, glancing at his watch again, said: "Bad show, we're a little late." "Cutting it a bit fine, isn't he?" murmured a lady at the palace as Philip sped...
...treasure hunt proved hilarious but hot. Some of the less hardy couples dropped out to cool off with champagne. The rest raced through London from Warwick House to an empty house at No. 1 Cambridge Square to the Ritz to the Peter Pan statue in Kensington (the Rolls-Royces had trouble getting through those narrow lanes), doggedly following the far-flung clues that had been written (in verse) by Howard Dietz. Sample clue (leading to a book planted inside the empty house...
Then the Government took the problem out of the Communist Party's hands, found new accommodations for the building workers in Kensington. It also announced a program to house 20,000 homeless Britons in some 700 unoccupied army camps. A drive is being launched to finish before the end of the year all houses now built up to the roof level...