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...nine this week, as next in line for the British throne after ten-year-old Prince Charles. Already, the British press was sorting favorite names-George, Albert, James or Andrew for a prince; Mary, Elizabeth, Victoria or Charlotte for a princess. WELL, WHAT LOVELY NEWS, glowed the Daily Sketch. DELIGHTED, MA'AM ! added the Daily Mail...
Snapped the Evening News: "Sentries have been tormented-there is no other word for it-by visitors who should know better." "Are guards to fall in line as tourist attractions along with Swiss yodelers and Indian snake charmers?" demanded the News Chronicle. The Daily Sketch, hinting that the "American Mom" had got exactly what she deserved, asked: "Why should our soldiers have to put up with this kind of treatment?" At week's end there was desperate talk of a reinforcement of extra bobbies to guard the guards who guard the palace...
Kemsley, who ended his partnership with his brother in 1937, began selling off chunks of the Kemsley newspaper empire in 1952, when Lord Rothermere bought the Daily Graphic (now the Daily Sketch). Concentrating on his Sunday Times, Kemsley preserved its status as Britain's leading Sunday paper. Wrote the competing Observer last week: "K. has ruled not only as proprietor but as editor in chief . . . His arrival in his Rolls at Kemsley House was awaited with awe: with fine white hair, a slight stoop and a gentle manner, he presided with the deep, resonant voice expected of proprietors...
Mario Prassinos' large (79 in. by 99 in.) Winter and Mathieu Mategot's Cosmorama (86 in. by 161 in.) would brighten any bare modern wall. Purists argue that translation from painted sketch to woven wool muffles the impact of the artist's intent. Certainly, tapestry has rarely been a medium for great art. But for works short of the greatest, tapestries have a disarming informality, and a richness of warp and weft that compensates for the loss of the immediacy that only the artist's brush can give...
...living off the earnings of a prostitute, but though the London magistrate dismissed the case before Marshall even finished testifying, he refused to award him ?300 in court costs on the ground that the police had the "duty to test the matter before the courts." "Again," bristled the Sketch, "the innocent one pays." What made the laws work in such dreadful manner? Last week, in a special report by British jurists calling for a complete inquiry into the nation's laws, worried Britons got an answer...