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...said a pretty 16-year-old, "but you just can't stop"), a piece that answered the question on everybody's lips, "What the Queen Looks At When She Takes a Bath" (her new "honorable bamboo" bathroom wall paper). For significance, the Mirror got the Bishop of Woolwich to warm over his controversial views on the modern world's need for a new concept of God (TIME, April 12), added a Sylvia Porter-type column of financial advice from "Our Young Man in the City." A new "With It" page offers tips on how to achieve instant...
...death redeemed man, and rose again to heaven, where he "sitteth on the right hand of God." So say the Bible and the Christian creeds; but since the story makes no sense to many literal, science-minded men. the Right Rev. John A. T. Robinson. 43, Anglican Bishop of Woolwich, accommodatingly explains in a new book that the doctrine is mostly dubious. Published last month in a five-shilling paperback gaily titled Honest to God, Bishop Robinson's revision of Anglican teaching has become a runaway English bestseller and has stirred up the Church of England's loudest...
Half & Half. In Woolwich, England, Barmaid Kathleen Kelly, fined $5.60 for selling watered-down whisky, admitted that she is a member of the Pioneer Total Abstainers League...
...hands, Alexandria had not seen such a happy outpouring since another day 16 years ago. That day there were also Royal Air Force planes overhead and a 21-gun salute. Tall, handsome, slender King Farouk had come home from school in England (the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich), to replace his recently dead father, plump Fuad I. Wrote the New York Times correspondent: "Farouk has won the hearts of his people by his democratic manner." Last week, the independent newspaper El Akhbar of Cairo updated the story: "Today, history records the name of an oppressive and unjust King ... A King...
Egypt's shrewd, greedy King Fuad had just died after a 19-year reign. Only six months before, the young prince had arrived in Britian to get a thorough training at the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich, plus a few lessons in manners and the craft of kingship. The moment he returned to Cairo, he was plumped into an atmosphere of intrigue and luxury. He was surrounded largely by sycophants who catered to his whims and seldom dared contradict him. He inherited a private fortune of $50 million, an annual Civil List income of $400,000, four fabulous palaces...