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...father and mother (Papa and Mummie) were determined to keep their daughter's life as free from the shadow of the Crown as possible. But in Britain, as in most of the Empire, Princess Lilibet was the private darling of every household. Her every gurgled word, new tooth, prank or bright saying was reported and syndicated to the farthest outposts. Did Lilibet have a new camera? The press promptly drooled: "She has already taken some quite creditable photos since she mastered the art of getting her subjects into focus...
...With being "sent down" as the possible penalty, the hero's prank is performed in broad daylight before an admiring student crowd. In reality, when playful Oxonians have felt an urge to embellish the Martyrs' Memorial, the chamber pot has been applied in darkness, in stealth and with cement...
...grotesquely ill-tempered, little-boy prank of sticking out his tongue at His Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (TIME, June 3) had given his Labor enemies a chance to jeer that he was in his second childhood, and had intensely embarrassed his fellow Tories. It had also crystallized their opposition to his party leadership...
...John the Orangeman," with his donkey cart, was another well-known figure of bygone years. It was he who translated the University's "Veritas" as "ter Hell wid Yale." Colonel Charles R. Apted, chief of the Yard police, was the victim of many a student prank, but was noted for his ability in saving as well as seizing...
Since American morality seems to be ebbing fast, the story of the paratroopers who held up a German cafe [TIME, Sept. 24] may be regarded by many as a boyish prank. Let them note that this is but one of countless incidents (the majority unpublicized), perpetrated by G.I.s and U.S. officers, that have reduced U.S. prestige in Europe. . . . For a good 45% of the uniformed men over here seem to believe in their own generation that they belong to the master race and some of them conduct themselves like amateur SS troops...