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...came into the Fleet Street headquarters of Britain's two chief national news services, the Exchange Telegraph and Press Association. On the wire was a royal press office man who said calmly: "Here is an announcement from Buckingham Palace." In a few words, he said that King George VI had died, told the agencies to hold the news until 10:45 to allow time for other official notices to get through. But the news traveled faster than the royal press office had expected. Less than five minutes after the deadline, it was already in the U.S. and flashing around...
...Daily News, showed the deep kinship between the U.S. and Britain by running almost the same headlines as the British press: THE KING IS DEAD. They assumed readers would know which king was meant. The Christian Science Monitor, which seldom prints "death" in its pages, headed its story GEORGE VI PASSES; ELIZABETH TO FLY BACK TO LONDON, printed not a word about when, where or how he died...
...that it needed a new life story for its afternoon clients. It wired London Correspondent Fred Doerflinger to write a new life story from his own sources-and not to read Carlova. Editorials were reverent without being mawkish. Even McCormick's Anglophobic Chicago Tribune bowed its head: "George VI will be remembered as a man of simple piety, a good man . . . and a model of what a constitutional monarch should...
...doctors like to say, a man is as old as his arteries, King George VI was older than his years. Never robust, he spent uncounted hours standing stiffly at public ceremonies or walking before endless review lines. The strain of these activities was bad for a man with circulatory trouble. Because of his medical history, the King's death from a coronary thrombosis (a blood clot blocking the artery on which the heart's muscle depends) was no surprise to medical...
Sober Choice. But the King and his doctors faced a sober question which only George VI himself could answer. Should he try to prolong his life to the utmost by taking scrupulous care never to tax his heart, and become a perpetual invalid? Or should he live, as much as possible, the life of a normal man of 56? In the background, too, there was the inevitable question of a reappearance of cancer...