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Buckingham Palace party rules will hold, she declared. Their Majesties will march once, perhaps twice from the Embassy's portico to the end of the long lawn & back. Guests should fall back, make a wide lane, not only out of respect but so that all may see. Members of Their Majesties' entourage will summon distinguished guests whom Their Majesties wish to have presented. In case of rain, two large khaki tents will be provided. Tea will be served under smaller marquees. The hard drink bar will be around a corner, out of sight. Guests must remain until Their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Bids & Rules | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

...stamp. Announced value was $1,000,000, although the displays are unused, unsalable, imperforate proofs from original plates. Visitors to the truck can buy a 10? history of U. S. philately, current and commemorative stamps. Hot off a tiny press, they get blue souvenir stickers of the White House portico where Philatelist Roosevelt last week dedicated Jim Farley's truck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Unrumpled Traveler | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

...Secretary Hull boarded the President's train as soon as it halted in Washington's Union Station, motored with his chief to the White House. There Franklin Roosevelt's first act was to go out to the south portico with his wife, set off their seventh annual Easter Monday egg-roll. To thousands of cheering children, he said: "It is a wonderful day. . . . I wish I could be down there with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Spirit of Warm Springs | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

Last week the rural broadcasting scheme revived when the Government installed receiving sets in 120 villages of the 573-sq.-mi. Delhi district. Installed in village chowpals (clubrooms, usually a raised earthen platform some 50 feet square with a portico at one end), instruments are kept in locked rooms, loudspeakers installed out of reach. Each evening at sunset an automatic device switches on the sets, turns them off after one hour of blaring. Automatic operation is necessary to prevent ryots from damaging the sets either through ignorance or anger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio, Oct. 31, 1938 | 10/31/1938 | See Source »

Speetators dashed for cover while the Glee Club looked on from the safety of the Widener portico when clouds burst over the final Yard concert of this season last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yard Listeners Dash For Shelter When Rain Soaks Widener Concert | 5/25/1938 | See Source »

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