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Staffers seem not only to like the editorial changes, but to approve of Publisher Hearst himself. In his trips around the country, Hearstlings find his "call me Bill" a welcome change from the pomp & ceremony that marked the Old Man's visits. Bill Hearst says that continual, if gradual, change has now become the order...
Like most of the rest of the U.S., Washington dearly loves royalty, but the capital, still remembering the romantic pomp and glitter attendant on last autumn's visit by Princess Elizabeth, wasn't quite ready to be enthusiastic about Queen Juliana of The Netherlands. Frankly, a good many photographs . made Juliana look like an unregal and rather dumpy Hausjrau. But from the moment she stepped out of the doorway of the KLM plane which brought her across the Atlantic last week, Washington began changing its mind...
Reluctantly, but with a brave show of willingness, U.S. occupiers gave back, chunk by chunk, pieces of the privilege, pomp and plenty which, through history, have been always the rewards and often the corrupters of conquerors. They are not relinquishing it all, by any means. Under the separate Japanese-American agreement allowing U.S. forces to remain in Japan, they will enjoy-but pay for-many extraterritorial privileges...
...Your motion picture editor has made an observation which cannot pass unchallenged. The excellent Jan. 28 review of Room for One More [refers to] the conducting of an Eagle Scout badge-award ceremony with "the solemnity of a coronation" . . . The pomp and circumstance connected with such an award is not designed to impress cynical and worldly-wise adults, but, rather, is centered on the boy himself. The award of Eagle rank is the highest honor that scouting can bestow . . . Parents may prod, and leaders may coax, but the boy himself must do the work . . . After a formidable array of obstacles...
Next morning, followed at a discreet distance by her husband Philip, the Queen walked along the garden path linking Clarence House with St. James's Palace, to receive the homage of her Privy Council and sign the oath of accession. An hour later, in a blaze of medieval pomp, her accession was formally proclaimed. Crowds of thousands jammed Pall Mall, St. James's Street, Friary Road and The Mall. Four state trumpeters, resplendent in gold-laced tabards, stepped out on a balcony of St. James's Palace, followed by sergeants-at-arms bearing maces. In the courtyard...