Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kitty Hawk, famed first "aeroplane" of the Wright Brothers, might end up in the Smithsonian Institution after all. Twenty years ago, in a huff at the Smithsonian, Inventor Orville Wright gave the Kitty Hawk to London's Science Museum. Last week Wright's executors dug up a 1943 letter telling the British that he wanted it back. Any time, said the British...
...Prussian government, which kept a close watch on him in London, received the following report, probably unique in the literature of espionage, on Marx's apartment at 28 Dean Street, Soho...
Then, before Britain's Royal Duke & Duchess of Gloucester (who had traveled from London for the occasion) and 150,000 of Ceylon's six million-odd Eurasians, Indians, Sinhalese, Tamils, Moors and Malays, rugged, 6 ft., 63-year-old Prime Minister Don Stephen ("Jungle John") Senanayake hauled the old Lion flag to its place atop the Temple of the Tooth.* By a peaceful act of Britain's Parliament, Ceylon-like Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Eire, India and Pakistan-had become a sovereign dominion of the British Commonwealth...
Princess Alexandra of Kent, youngest (11) bridesmaid at Princess Elizabeth's wedding, was doing fine after having her appendix out in London...
...begins with an essay on Byzantine art and history, goes on to discuss the crowns of the Visigoth kings, "the most wonderful relics of the barbaric art," moves on to a thorough examination of medieval hunting, proceeds to a brilliant essay on Picasso, followed by a brief recollection of London literary and artistic life after World...