Word: unicorn
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WHEN Queen Elizabeth is crowned next week in Westminster Abbey, the pageant will follow a ritual reaching far back into the history of the British crown. The union of the English lion and Scottish unicorn on the royal arms (above) dates from James I. St. Edward's Crown, placed on the Queen's head at the climax of the ceremony, is a copy of one worn by Edward the Confessor in 1042 and was made for Charles II after Cromwell destroyed the original. The Imperial State Crown, which Elizabeth will wear as she returns to the palace...
...written by Mac Cache and Joseph L. Morse, Manhattan book distributors and publishers (Unicorn Press), the ad asked the paper to switch because "there is genuine discord . . . between the Times and the vast majority of its readers." Eisenhower, said the ad, "has gone so far off the deep end politically as to support such men as Rush Holt and Chapman Revercomb, who repulsively stand for what the Times has always courageously fought." Cache and Morse urged the Times's readers to "besiege our favorite newspaper with thousands of letters, cards, wires" asking the paper to "reverse its stand...
...quite a document in its own right. After Thurber's opening lecture, the rest will consist of: 1) animated versions of the stories, You Could Look It Up (how a big-league ball club won a pennant by-sending a midget in to bat) and The Unicorn in the Garden (how a woman tried to have her husband sent to the booby hatch and was instead committed herself); 2) dramatizations, using flesh & blood actors, of four of the "Mr. & Mrs. Monroe" stories, dealing with marriage perplexities; 3) another animated lecture, urging the superiority of dogs to humans and including...
Closer to the Thames there is a cleverly laid-out building which tries to prove that Britishers are as mixed racially as the native New Yorker is supposed to be Right next to it is another building called the Lion and the Unicorn, a sort of museum of above average interest containing things "very English" in the fields of literature, politics, language, and customs...
...Siena Polio, the world's oldest horse race,* anything goes. Since the jockeys ride for the honor of the Siena town wards (which bear such symbolic names as Giraffe, Dragon, Unicorn and Wave), partisan passions begin to rise well before race day. This year Unicorn hired away (for a rumored 900,000 lire) the Giraffe's jockey, a movie stunt rider and a two-time winner named Pietrino. Pietrino, a Polio veteran much in demand, had been known to change colors before...