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Conciseness, factual accuracy, and lasting interest are among the requisites for all articles submitted. The maximum length for each contribution is 3500 words. Full details of the competition, which closes on May 1, will be given in the March issue of the Reader's Digest, or will be mailed upon application to the editors in Pleasant-ville, New York...
...pleased last week to make a precedent-shattering decision with respect to British stamps. Ever since the first British adhesive stamp was issued in 1840, the likeness of the Sovereign has been a head-&-neck. Experts of the Post Office have maintained that to show the Sovereign at waist-length or full-length on anything so small as a stamp would be to shrink the royal likeness until it was virtually unrecognizable, even in the case of a Sovereign with a distinctive beard...
Smooth-shaven, modest Edward VIII startled the Post Office last week with this double-barreled order: On stamps His Majesty is to appear at waist-length, and the British stamp size is not to be enlarged. Because the new King figured during the War primarily as an Army man, because he has never had an active Navy command like his father, and because in recent years he has taken special interest in the Royal Air Force, Post Office civil servants were further startled last week when the Sovereign commanded that on the new waist-length stamps he is to appear...
Ever since Victoria's blameless Consort Albert introduced the knee-length frock coat or "Prince Albert," it has been required wearing at Buckingham Palace for officials in "close attendance" on the Sovereign. This week King Edward ordered worn instead the morning coat...
...laugh as I watched the old fellow, wiping beads of perspiration from his brow, fidgeting nervously with the golden head on his cane. Finally he walked up the stairs to the Sanctum. I could hear him moving about, piling the furniture before the door, and locking the windows. At length he called down to me through the copy shoot...