Word: kensington
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. Hans Kindler, 55, founder and conductor of Washington's 17-year-old National Symphony Orchestra; and Persis Myers Hill, 37, symphony-loving socialite; each for the second time; in Kensington...
Philip was first almost early, then almost late. He popped out of Kensington Palace at 11 o'clock, shook hands with a chimney sweep (for luck), glanced at his watch and popped back in again. At 11:05 he and his best man, the Marquess of Milford Haven, set out in a limousine for the Abbey, after Philip, glancing at his watch again, said: "Bad show, we're a little late." "Cutting it a bit fine, isn't he?" murmured a lady at the palace as Philip sped...
...treasure hunt proved hilarious but hot. Some of the less hardy couples dropped out to cool off with champagne. The rest raced through London from Warwick House to an empty house at No. 1 Cambridge Square to the Ritz to the Peter Pan statue in Kensington (the Rolls-Royces had trouble getting through those narrow lanes), doggedly following the far-flung clues that had been written (in verse) by Howard Dietz. Sample clue (leading to a book planted inside the empty house...
Then the Government took the problem out of the Communist Party's hands, found new accommodations for the building workers in Kensington. It also announced a program to house 20,000 homeless Britons in some 700 unoccupied army camps. A drive is being launched to finish before the end of the year all houses now built up to the roof level...
...West End cinema rocked with uneasy laughter night before last when a bedraggled woman squatter babbled into a newsreel microphone that she and her old man had been living in one room in South Kensington, that another couple had just moved in with them, and that: "It was ever so public." Better-off Britons, who see such newsreels and read about squatters, have that uneasy feeling that they had when wartime evacuations suddenly washed to the surface thousands of children with lice in their hair...