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London's Daily Mirror was agape. Titling him the "Duke of Savvy," the tabloid editorialized: "This man Philip is talking horse sense." The speech at the Foreign Press Association was straight from the horse's mouth anyway, since the monarchy got most of the royal husband's attention. "It has to be all things to all persons," he confessed. "Of course, it cannot do this when it comes to being all things to traditionalists and iconoclasts. But if you are very cunning you get as far away from extremists as you possibly can because they kick harder...
...When gay, he is gentle and blithe to such a degree that he takes to dancing on the sidewalks, buying extravagant gifts for anyone who comes to mind, playing his heart out. One day last fall he swept into his brother's apartment to dance before a full-length mirror so he could admire his collard-leaf boutonniere; he left without a word. "Hey!" he will call out. "Butterflies faster than birds? Must be, 'cause with all the birds on the scene up in my neighborhood, there's this butterfly, and he flies any way he wanna...
...Rearview Mirror...
...Hearst's tabloid Mirror, first casualty of the strike, released figures that added up to a graphic explanation of how the long, enforced silence had hastened the paper's end. The Mirror was already in distressing shape when the strike began; its last profit...
...lost $8,400,000 between 1955 and 1962. Then the strike just about swamped it in red ink. In nine months last year, the Mirror dropped $2,500,000, and stopped publishing in October...