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...Queen had done the thing, no one would tell. Whatever the cause, the effect was a national wave of sentiment in favor of Mike Parker reminiscent of the emotional binge touched off two years ago by the unhappy romance of Princess Margaret and divorced commoner (and palace staffer) Peter Townsend. "Why," demanded Lord Beaverbrook's Express, for many years an ardent opponent of palace puritanism, "should a broken marriage be a disqualification for royal service? Until a few weeks ago the First Minister of the Queen [twice-married Sir Anthony Eden] was a man who had been through...
...might have been expected, the press ignored the palace plea to respect Charles's privacy. To get rid of the mob on the second day, Headmaster H. S. Townsend had to announce that the famous New Boy would not show up. But cameramen had already given the delighted nation a glimpse of the future King of England scuffling about the playing field just like any other boy his age. It was, exulted the London Daily Mail, further evidence "of the growing democratization (horrid, inescapable word!) of the throne...
Boycotts & Bullets. Since weeklies are closer than dailies to readers and advertisers and more vulnerable to the pressure of advertisers, they are often hit by economic boycotts. But few editors cave in under such threats-or worse. In Granite City, Ill., after Editor Cornelius E. Townsend had waged an editorial campaign against organized gambling in the community, a hoodlum recently emptied his revolver into Townsend's Press-Record office. Echoing many a fighting editor before him, Townsend said: "Maybe they'll scare hell out of me someday and I'll quit. But I don't think...
Princeton scored its lone goal at 6:20 of the second period, when veteran Kim Townsend slipped the puck past Captain Jim Bailey from up close. Bailey was called on to make only 16 saves in the course of the game, and sophomore Harry Pratt, who replaced him in the closing minutes, added four more...
...height of Princess Margaret's off-again, on-again romance with Peter Townsend last year, Britain's Sunday Pictorial burst out with a Page One headline: FOR PETE'S SAKE, PUT HIM OUT OF HIS MISERY. Last week the British Press Council roundly deplored such instances of "coarse impertinence." It cited as another example of "bad taste and worse manners" the Daily Mirror's headline on the same romance...