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England, began settling down in Clarence House, the Queen Mother's London residence and the newlyweds' temporary abode until their red brick home at 10 Kensington Palace is ready for occupation next month. Some odd news awaited them: Tony's effigy had been swiped from Madame Tussaud's famed London wax museum. Said a Tussaud spokesman: "We are most upset...
...gaunt-cheeked bronze by the late Sir Jacob Epstein. "Hardly regal," grumbled the Daily Telegraph of the scrawny figure. "The princess resembles a badly groomed suburban young woman, her hands roughened at the kitchen sink, about to pick up a tray," wrote the Daily Mail. Then Madame Tussaud's put on view a waxworks figure of Tony Armstrong-Jones in a hands-behind-the-back posture that he had borrowed from Prince Philip-who no longer uses it. On top of that, the Royal Academy rejected a portrait by Artist Ruskin Spear called Princess Margaret Catches the Night Train...
...Delhi, India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru spied a familiar face (his own), happily gave the verdict on a wax bust molded by a local sculptress named Viramani: as good as anything he'd ever seen at London's famed Madame Tussaud's. After a minor touch-up job and correction of a faux pas-the plaque at the base of the bust added a year to Nehru's 69-the present from Sculptress Viramani goes on permanent display at his home...
Dispatching his personal barber, Britain's Admiral of the Fleet Louis F.A.V.N. Mountbatten, first Earl Mountbatten of Burma, put down a kinky situation. Crisis : the hair on the new wax Mountbatten at London's famed Madame Tussaud's museum was far too curly. The barber slicked down all but a single, suavely undulant wave...
Soon to become an honored statesman at Madame Tussaud's wax museum in London, Ghana's Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah was making top-of-his-head problems. Museum Hair Specialist Vera Bland not only had trouble getting Nkrumah-like hair ("It is in very short commercial supply"), but paled at the prospect of putting it on the wax head at 1,000 hairs per sq. in. But at least, said Bernard Tussaud, boss of the firm, "he hasn't any bumps on his head at all. He seems a good-tempered, benevolent kind...