Word: snowdons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Earl of Snowdon...
...House of Commons, a Labor M.P. suggested tartly that "at this time, when there are thousands of homeless in London," the government showed "deplorable priority sense" in spending $238,000 in public funds to repair the palace for its new occupants: Princess Margaret and her husband, Lord Snowdon, onetime Society Photographer Tony Armstrong-Jones...
Armstrong-Jones, besides being Princess Margaret's husband, is also the Earl of Snowdon and until his career ended in marriage, he was a competent freelance photographer. Weighing all these credentials, Roy Thomson, Canadian-born publisher of 93 papers, had hired Tony as "artistic adviser" to Thomson's prestigious London Sunday Times (circ. 1,022,913). The salary-a reported 7,500 quid ($21,000)-was regal enough on Fleet Street. But the rest of Fleet Street promptly hollered foul...
...Times's Sunday supremacy, was shocked almost speechless. Its initial notice of the Earl's new job ran 17 deadpan words. Then the Observer's wrath spilled over. "Everyone, including the Observer," observed the Observer, "has said that a royal marriage should not preclude Lord Snowdon from doing work. But we believe he has chosen the wrong kind...
Jungle Screams. Although no other paper felt quite so strongly, few but Thomson's Sunday Times, which had Tony in the bag, could resist sounding off. The London Daily Sketch puckered with a mild case of sour grapes: "Lord Snowdon sharpens his artistic genius for readers of the Sunday Times." Cassandra (William Connor), London Daily Mirror columnist, was moved by amusement: "Now Tony Snowdon, as the Observer calls him [to Cassandra, Tony was 'a royal Dicky-bird'], has flown from Kensington Palace to the jungle that is Fleet Street. In a trice, the macaws, the parrots...