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...King Features and International News Service; of a heart attack; in New Rochelle. N.Y. "Smiling Joe" Connolly made Walter Winchell, Damon Runyon, Arthur "Bugs" Baer and Robert "Believe It or Not" Ripley into prize press packages. A big spender of Hearst's money, he covered King George VI's coronation to the hilt: he hired Lloyd George to report the politics, G.B.S. to make the wisecracks, Grand Duchess Marie to do "the women's angle...
King George VI added color and dash to a tree-planting ceremony at Windsor by appearing in a new Scottish border tweed suit (three-inch redline squares against a light brown background) which cost him some 26 of his annual allotment of 48 clothing coupons. A West End tailor, moodily studying the cloth and cut, predicted that His Majesty's new ensemble would be a fashion setter...
Earlier, the Nazis had seemed unable to decide what to do about the bridgehead. One of their counterattacks pushed the doughboys back 400 yards; at another spot, 9th Infantry Division units ran into 24 German tanks, including three Mark VI Tigers. Nevertheless, the enemy seemed to be pulling his nondescript infantry back, leaving a shell of armor and self-propelled guns. Berlin claimed that Lieut. General Leonard T. Gerow's new Fifteenth Army had been sent over the Remagen crossing, that Fifteenth and First Army men in the bridgehead totaled 100,000. Apparently Berlin was not hopeful of throwing...
...Toughest Fight. When he got back to London last week and lunched with George VI, the Prime Minister was able to tell his King with pride that British and Canadian troops were beating down the bitterest German resistance of the entire western front. This action was in the Wesel area, where German paratroops, under victory-or-death orders from Hitler himself, were holding a shrinking bridgehead on the Rhine's west bank...
Died. Bertrand Edward Dawson, First Viscount Dawson of Penn, 80, physician to Britain's Edward VII, George V, Edward VIII, George VI; of pneumonia; in London. First British medical peer since Lister, he shocked the House of Lords with his outspoken views on birth control ("you should not have self-control when you are making love"), prohibition ("alcohol aids the digestion, brightens the outlook"), divorce ("when a marriage's main purpose is frustrated it ceases to have spiritual meaning"). He penned the famed sentence broadcast when George V lay a-dying in 1936: "The King's life...