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...owns, operates and provides much of the food for 250 teashops in England, four huge restaurants (Corner Houses), London's famed Trocadero Restaurant and three of London's largest hotels (the 1,000-room Cumberland, the goo-room Regent Palace, the goo-room Strand Palace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPRATIONS: Frood for Lyonch | 2/2/1948 | See Source »

...Prime Minister got honorary doctorates from Brussels and Louvain Universities, and at Louvain, twice destroyed by invading Germans, he saw students at work under temporary wooden ceilings. He remarked that the sight was a "magnificent example" of Belgian indomitability. On Armistice Day in Brussels, accompanied by Belgium's Regent Prince Charles, he laid a chrysanthemum and laurel wreath on the tomb of Belgium's Unknown Soldier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: Sentimental Journey | 11/24/1947 | See Source »

Winston Churchill, to whom admiring South Australian livestock men had sent a pair of white kangaroos, finally got around to the London Zoo in Regent's Park. But when he got there the pen was half-bare. The she-kangaroo had thrown herself against a fence and died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Roses All the Way | 9/22/1947 | See Source »

Last week Generalissimo Francisco Franco ordered the Spanish people to vote on his new law of succession. A yes vote would not only make Franco "Chief of State" for life in a kingless "kingdom," but would give him the legal right to name the king or regent who would succeed him. A no vote simply meant that Franco would continue as dictator of Spain, without even a shadowy commitment to restore the monarchy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Hobson's Choice | 7/14/1947 | See Source »

London itself of course shows plenty of signs of the blitzes, though a stupid enough tourist can easily drive along Regent Street and gurgle that "you'd never think there'd been a bomb dropped in London!" Many buildings, still standing and apparently unharmed, are completely burned out inside. Every few blocks at least there is an empty lot, looking no more romantic than an empty lot in Dedham, but bombed, not wrecked by Curley & Sons, Contr. Most shocking are the "wide open spaces"--areas in the East End, thousands of yards square, blitzed as smooth as an infield...

Author: By Armand SCHWAB Jr., | Title: London Presents Steadfast, Proud Face to Traveller | 7/11/1947 | See Source »

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