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...filed, lost its lovely staircase. John Nash's nobly curving Regent Street was ripped by a time bomb. A German squadron boasted it had toasted victory in champagne in the sky, and then dropped the empty bottles on the palace which was bought from the Duke of Buckingham by one of Britain's German Kings, George III. Rougher ammunition blasted the palace five times, and tore at the spot where millions have watched the changing of the guard. Hit was the paneled house in Chiswick where William Hogarth retired during the summers to draw. So was the Gothic...
...churches, many of them flimsy as eggshells, suffered badly. A soo-pound bomb embedded itself deep in the street near St. Paul's Cathedral, which sits unsteadily on foundations of wet sand. The delayed action of such bombs as this and the first one which damaged Buckingham Palace was regulated not by a timing mechanism, which would not survive the bomb's fall, but by the slow action of acid eating through a metal plate. After four days the St. Paul's bomb was finally removed by a "suicide squad" and exploded in a marsh outside...
...week's end Their Majesties returned again to Buckingham to inspect the results of a third attack. This time the Queen's quarters were hit, when a heavy bomb smashed through her suite to the tapestry room on the first floor, used by the Queen as a drawing room. As the all-out attacks by the Luftwaffe went into their second week, the damage to the palace was estimated at over...
...office, an admiral's uniform for a cruise on his splendid white yacht, once the property of Oilman Edward Doheny. It is a legend in Manila that he planned to have a guard of honor for the Malacanan dressed in uniforms copied after those worn at Buckingham Palace, dropped the idea only after earnest advice from friends. He is the adored father of two grown-up daughters. Maria Aurora ("Baby") and Zenaida ("Mini"), and a small son. Manuel Jr. ("Nonong"). Mrs. Quezon, dignified and portly, keeps matron...
...London King George VI installed a new rowing machine at Buckingham Palace (to make up for the exercise he ordinarily gets at this time of the year shooting grouse), was undismayed at bombing raids that knocked John Milton's statue off its plinth at St. Giles...