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Remembering Freddie. In exile in London. Mutesa II last week proved almost as popular in Britain as he became overnight in his own country. Englishmen remembered him from his Cambridge days when his tall, dandified figure, complete with tightly furled umbrella and dudish Edwardian jacket, was a familiar sight, in Mayfairs poshest bars. His friends called him Freddie, and last week the name caught on all over Britain. Amply subsidized by the British government, Freddie took a suite in the Savoy, bought a hat and slipped out to see his old friends...
...Mount Vernon, in a pouring rain, the slicker-clad King placed a wreath on the tomb of George Washington. At the next wreath-laying ceremony in Arlington Cemetery, the Queen tweaked the nose of a small boy who was standing nearby. "What a doll!" sighed a girl under an umbrella. "That's a lot of king," murmured a man, as the 6-ft. 4-in. Paul passed by. At lunch with Washington correspondents, the Queen smilingly accepted two items which were not on the menu, a hamburger and a hot dog, but turned pale when she was offered...
...benefit of all the people. His success in framing such a program depends on the caliber of his associates from his own party, of course, and conversely those associates must depend on that program in their personal campaigns-not on hoped-for presidential endorsements. The program is a real umbrella under which to operate. He did not intend, Ike continued, to get into partisan struggles on the local level, because, were he in the position of the voter, he would resent that kind of intrusion from the President of the United States...
...each spring by edging to the door at the end of the last class before Easter. Just the the bell rings, he explodes, "I want you to know that I hold each and every one of you personally responsible for the death of our Saviour, Jesus Christ." Waving his umbrella a few times, Nock disappears out the door...
...life, ordered amid the helter-skelter. Choosing the scholar's monastic life, he has in his erratic, diverse way filled an essentially lonely pattern with lifelong friendships and warmth. For his active sense of humor extends beyond Little Audrey and limericks; it takes in his sealskin hat, his omnipresent umbrella, indeed, Arthur Darby Nock himself...