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...George VI's daily routine has been rigorous, unsensational, inelegant. Like every other Briton who can manage it, he has his cup of morning tea, a black Indian blend in bed at about 8 o'clock. When he travels he lives aboard his ten-car train to avoid the fuss and bother of staying with people. By 9:30 he has bathed, dressed, breakfasted and glanced at the morning papers. All the London dailies go to the Palace. When he is in London he then meets one of his two secretaries in his office. The secretary is loaded...
...shoulder straps of their packs, continually move hands and elbows, to be sure of good circulation and the ability to handle guns when they reach the front; 2) to protect their eyes from tiny fragments from land mines, they should wear Plexiglas goggles or masks; 3) to avoid the concussion of depth charges, swimming sailors should float on their backs...
...discovery that the rank laid out for COMINCH Ernie King and Admiral William D. Leahy, the President's Chief of Staff, is six-star "Admiral of the Navy" (equals nothing short of Heaven). Reportedly Ernie King is already designing a new sleeve insigne and pondering a way to avoid the Milky Way effect on his starstudded shoulder boards by substituting a wreath, or something...
Baggy-browed Phil Baker took the $64 Question to Hollywood this week. As custodian of the renowned question-now so much a part of the national idiom that even $64 prose stylists avoid using it-and quizmaster of one of U.S. radio's most popular shows, Take It or Leave It (CBS, Sun., 10 p.m., E.W.T.), Phil Baker was ready to put both on celluloid. But there would be one slight variation: to suit Hollywood's philosophy, the $64 Question would become the $640 Question...
Aims and the Men. News of the Nation is an exciting reversal of the usual heavily documented, battles-to-treaties historical form. It manages to avoid the merely flip and irrelevant and as neatly sidesteps the ponderously global. Its aims: 1) information for the adult, now more than ever history-minded ; 2) supplementary reading for the history student (teachers can get it in sections, for era-to-era instruction...