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Three Crimson skippers--Commodore A. C. Langworthy, Fred Hoppin, and Tommy Townsend--will seek their fifth straight Big Three Championship from Princeton and Yale in a nine boat race. Home waters and greater familiarity with the Tech dingies give the local sailors the edge...
While all Britain talked about Princess Margaret's romance with 40-year-old R.A.F. Group Captain Peter Townsend, the royal family did its best to see that there was little to talk about. Captain Townsend returned to Belgium after a three-day visit to England without so much as a glimpse of his princess: neither he nor Margaret attended last week's classic St. Leger horse race at which it was hoped they might meet and exchange, at the very least, a significant look. The Court Calendar noted without comment the visit to Balmoral Castle of Britain...
...gone to the accompaniment of such impertinent tabloid headlines as COME ON, MARGARET and PLEASE MAKE UP YOUR MIND. All the proper British papers condemned such improper journalism. But the surprising fact in the whole situation was how carefully the respectable papers, without being so vulgar as to mention Townsend's name, had kept their readers up on the news. They did so by a sudden rash of articles about the archaic Royal Marriage Act which requires that Parliament shall have a year in which to disapprove of any marriage in the royal family. The Manchester Guardian learnedly explained...
Showing utterly no signs of portliness, at 40, Group Captain Peter Townsend, R.A.F. exiled suitor of Princess Margaret, donned his racing togs before a news camera, hopped onto Ponthieu, the favorite in Deauville's big race for gentle men riders, came in 14th in a field of 29. But Airman Townsend needed police protection anyway from a horde of maids and matrons who charged upon him, panting with romantic admiration...
...churchyard wall in its crush to see her. The princess looked radiant, especially when the Rev. John Lamb, from the pulpit, wished her "the fulfillment of her desires.'' The day passed quietly, without public hint of whether fulfillment in this case involved R.A.F. Group Captain Peter Townsend, 40, the divorced air hero whom she could now marry, provided Parliament lets her renounce all rights of royal succession...