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Soon after Turner put what he thought were the finishing strokes to his misty grey seascape in 1832, the painting was hung at the Royal Academy next to John Constable's Opening of Waterloo Bridge. When Turner went to the gallery to varnish his painting for exhibition, he found Constable busily brightening his Waterloo Bridge with vermilion and lake. Silent, the pre-impressionist master watched, comparing Constable's work with his own. Then Turner fetched his palette and gave his Helvoetsluys an extraordinary touch: a round daub of red lead on the cold, grey...
...French pilots saw it in the flarelight, from far above. The Legionnaires advanced from their shattered trenches toward the massed Red infantry, and the guns. Like the Confederate rush at Franklin, it was forlorn; like the Old Guard's serried march on Waterloo, it was final; like the Light Brigade at Balaclava, it was magnificent, but not war. At 0150, little more than half an hour later, the Charge of the Demi-Brigade was over, and very few men still lived. Isabelle radioed the Drench planes: "Breakout failed. We must break communications with you. We are going to blow...
Extra police would be needed, the stationmaster at Waterloo Station was warned: Billy Graham was coming to London. The stationmaster smiled a British stationmaster's smile. "Never mind," he said, "we've always been able to handle the crowds when Mr. Churchill arrives." Next day a harried police sergeant pulled bobbies off traffic details outside the station. Inside, full-throated singing echoed under Waterloo's dingy skylight, and a surging mass of 2,000 Londoners hoisted children to shoulders, waved Bibles, and clambered up on anything handy for a look at a tall, grinning American with wavy...
...British stationery and enclosed in an envelope postmarked "Dec. 21, London, S.E. 1," the note might have been written anywhere and mailed by any one of thousands wandering the streets of southeast London that day. Two Soviet cargo ships were tied up in London at the time, and the Waterloo Airways Terminal is part of the postal district in which the letter was mailed. The message itself, according to Colonel Bassett, gave no clue to Burgess' whereabouts. It came, as The Manchester Guardian put it, "like a rap on the door-but when the door is opened, nobody...
...Charles Lamb went to C.H.; so did Coleridge and Leigh Hunt. Three Old Blues rose to be Lord Mayors of London; another, Sir Henry Cole, helped to found the Victoria and Albert Museum and Albert Hall; still another, Lord Seaton, led the charge which routed the Old Guard at Waterloo. The school that these men attended changed little over the years. In matters of custom and costume, it was much the same in the more recent days of Critic Middleton Murry and Actor Michael Wilding as it had been back...