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...Abbey; the New York, Times's Veteran Drew Middleton's was perhaps the best from the streets outside, where scores of newsmen covered the processional route. Buffeted by the surging crowds along the Mall, Middleton was lifted up by their surging spirit, as "a river of scarlet and gold and steel flowed through the shabby, cheerful masses of Britain. . . . For a brief moment the pace of the strident, terrible 20th Century was slowed to the trot of cavalry horses...
Only Crimson opponent to gain a first team award was Frank Burns, flashy T quarterback from Rutgers, who starred in the Scarlet's 31-7 rout on November...
...rented cutaway coats and striped trousers at two guineas each, with a shining topper thrown in gratis. To everybody's relief, the King announced that the Household Cavalry would not wear khaki when escorting the bride to the Abbey, but would appear in all their full-dress glory: scarlet and blue uniforms with pipe-clayed breeches and flashing cuirasses...
Died. Baroness Orczy (Mrs. Montague Barstow), 82, champagne-and-swordplay novelist whose foppish, daredevil hero, "The Scarlet Pimpernel," first appeared in 1905, reappeared in twelve subsequent novels and one book of short stories, was the heaviest single contributor to her fame (and a Riviera villa); in London...
...days of the railroad builders, U.S. readers got St. Elmo and Under Two Flags. When the clipper ships were sailing to China, one of the popular novels was The Scarlet Letter. When the wagon trains were going over South Pass, it was Swiss Family Robinson. The year before Japan fell, it was Forever Amber...