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Last week it bore small fruit when Nurse Helen Maud Rowe took the baby for an outing on a footpath, pushing Elizabeth's old royal-blue pram. Cameras with telephoto lenses clicked furiously. But the pictures showed more pram than prince. Two days later one snapped a picture that showed the top of the prince's head (see cut). Then the royal family requested editors to call off their men. A reporter remonstrated with a lady pressagent at Buck House about the royal family's impregnable reserve. "After all," she retorted, "it is a private matter, really...
Smallest boat was an 8-ft. sailing pram made from a construction kit. It sold for $35 and could be built at home...
...Morpeth last week: "We shall be five million tons short of our requirements by the end of 1947." Mrs. Ivy Lee, a young London matron, understood what that meant. She said: "A good thing I didn't give away my little boy's push pram-looks like coming in handy again this winter, if we have to queue for a few pounds down at the old coal wharf...
Some of William Schwenck Gilbert's own infancy must have gone into this carefree jingle. Aged two (and known to his doting parents as "Bab"), Gilbert was being wheeled in his pram along an Italian country road when the local bandits appeared on the scene. They tipped their hats to the nursemaid, suavely persuaded her that they had been sent by father Gilbert to fetch his son, and disappeared into the mountains with Bab (in later life, Gilbert insisted that he remembered the scenery as being very fine). The bandits demanded, and promptly received, a ransom...
Cried an indignant mother in the next issue of the Lancet: "I should also like to know how Dr. McCluskie deals with the infant who . . . when propped up in a pram . . . and enjoined to stay awake . . . proceeds to fall asleep in the most uncomfortable position possible, in spite of having slept 14 hours the previous night and three hours that same morning...