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...George VI and Elizabeth...
...France, a big brown three-year-old named Souverain won the Grand Prix de Paris, then crossed the Channel to meet Britain's best in the King George VI stakes last month. It was no contest: Souverain won, eased up, by five lengths...
Last week, on King George VI's orders, they got a much mellower substitute stanza, although the first and fourth lines still had a shade of condescension. Appropriately enough, the new verse's first official appearance was at a national service of intercession for the United Nations in St. Paul's Cathedral, with the King, Queen and Clement Attlee heading the congregation : Nor on this land alone -But be God's mercies known From shore to shore. Lord, make the nations see That men should brothers be, And form one family The wide world...
...freeman and burgess. Ike, who had got in a little shooting on the moors, put the townsfolk at ease: "The poachers among you will find just as many birds left as before I came." Bagpipes piped him on his way to Balmoral Castle. The Eisenhowers' hosts there: George VI and Queen Elizabeth...
...George VI suffered a nasty little dig from the underworld. Style-conscious burglars broke into a London tailor shop where a suit of the King's hung, departed with four choices of their own, but the King's was not among them. The snooted suit: a dark blue lounge model...