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...Group Captain Peter Townsend (TIME, July 20), now safely banished to an office in the British embassy at Brussels. There was still no official or royal-family confirmation of the romance, and much tushing in the respectable press at the propriety of even discussing it. Unabashed, London's tabloid Daily Mirror charged boldly into the heart of the matter by conducting a poll of its readers. Of 70,142 Mirror readers who wrote in, 67,907 urged that Princess Margaret be allowed to marry her divorced airman if she wished to; 2,235 said that she should...
...such a way as to ease the restrictions on Margaret's marriage.* Meanwhile, the true state of the young princess' heart remained a family secret. Last June, when U.S. newsmen descended on London for the coronation, the secret popped out with a bang in the tabloid New York Daily News...
...sampling of its 4,500,000 readers, Britain's largest tabloid, the breezy London Mirror, asked what Tory they wanted to succeed Churchill if Churchill should retire. Results: Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, 50.36%; Chancellor of the Exchequer Richard Austen ("Rab") Butler 35.5%. "The striking feature of the poll is the solid measure of support for Mr. Butler," observed the Mirror. "Even two years ago his name would have meant little to the public." A Gallup poll taken last April confirmed the Mirror's observation. Then the result was: Eden 64%; Butler...
...attention of the general public) editorialized: "To employ the unnatural and illegal forces of civil disobedience, as Professor Einstein advises, is in this case to attack one evil with another. McCarthyism should be fought cleanly and openly, and it will certainly be defeated in the long run."* The tabloid New York Daily News considered the source: "The old sweetheart is a giant in his field of theoretical physics. But his political wisdom is that of a babe-in-arms. His latest antic in the political field is just another piece of Einstein tomfoolery to file & forget...
...Manhattan, reporters for the tabloid Daily News worked in relays to cover the dark-to-dawn activities of Actress Diana Barrymore, which reminded oldtimers of the antics of her late father John Barrymore. Because "my husband bores me," Diana began her evening by pub-crawling with an off-duty policeman ("He has a wife, two children and a Buick and must be nameless"). Returning home after midnight, she found her husband, Robert Wilcox, arguing with another rival named John McNeill ("It went on and on and I kept saying 'Shut up, boys, shut...