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...authority"-suits them well. George VI cannot dismiss, disparage or even threaten his ministers. As was shown in the case of his brother, Edward VIII, they can evict him. But no minister of-the King, nor any truly British socialist, would ever dare to raise hand or voice against the Monarchy. The institution is the thing...
...Faith. No phrase in George VI's royal style is more resonant than "Defender of the Faith."* When Pope Leo X so designated Henry VIII, it meant: defender of the Roman Catholic faith. Henry abruptly and sensationally made it mean defender of the Protestant Church of England. Since then, the faith preserved in Great Britain's Crown has evolved, in terms both political and social, far beyond careful definition. What it has gained in breadth it may have lost in depth...
...Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Arthur Fiedler: Overture "Fregal's Cave," Mendelssohn; Symphony No. VIII in F Major, Opus 93, Beethoven Symphonie Classique, Prokoviev...
...place. It has 1,000 windows, 365 rooms. In days gone by it was not unusual for 200 guests to sit to a dinner served on gold plate. Queen Victoria, a guest, remarked that it was too extravagant for her. Other royal guests included King George V, King Edward VIII, King George VI. The house was so vast that, the story goes, guests were given packets of wafers to strew along the corridors showing the way back to their rooms. A guest once rang the servant's bell on Saturday; it was Monday before his man appeared. During...
...York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art has come another type of body armor for U.S. airmen (TIME, June 14). At the Army's Aberdeen (Md.) proving grounds, ballistics experts are testing a steel suit modeled after the coat of armor worn by King Henry VIII...