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... RUSH TO BUY NEW STAMPS The new King George VI. and Coronation stamps, the latter sold for the first time yesterday, are expected to establish a record for day-of-issue sales. - Queues formed at many post offices and for the first time special stamp counters ...
... OVERSEAS PHONE CALL RATES DOWN REDUCTIONS in overseas radio-telephone rates throughout May, and details of the new George VI. and Coronation stamps, were revealed yesterday by Major Tryon, Postmaster-General. Thirty-shilling-a-minute phone calls to the Empire ...
... ALL THE WORLD LISTENS TO THE CORONATION Infinitely Beautiful Abbey Ceremony —The King WITH A CEREMONIAL SPLENDOUR AND DIGNITY UNSURPASSED IN ANY COUNTRY IN THE WORLD KING GEORGE VI. AND QUEEN ELIZABETH WERE CROWNED IN WESTMINSTER ABBE BY THE ARCHBISHOP ...
... -. 1 - UEEN ELIZABETH orate the Coronation of T.M. King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, -. .. this handsome casket will make a worthy souvenir of this great occasion. The design is carried out in Blue, Coronation Red and Gold lettering. Each casket ...
... grant facilities for the passage of the Marriage Bill through its remaining stages in the Cornmons George VI. stamps will be on sale on Monday and Coronation stamps a week today: cheaper overseas phone calls are an : - flounced TODAY'S WIA \THER H. L. Brook ...
... presides over the court, is the head of the village and so is leading the celebrations of the Coronation of King George VI. The secretary of the Coronation Committee, Mr. Sam Wakefield. dived into a chest in his oak-laced Tudor house and brought out a ...
... George V. Spaniels Win Prizes I MPORTANT prizewinners at the Coronation Show of the Ladies' Kennel Association at Olympia yesterday were amber spaniels, bred by King George V. at Sandringham. They are now the property of Mr. R. Cape, of Runnymede. Mr ...
... SICK AMEDICAL superstition concerning the Coronation has passed almost unnoticed. When George VI. was anointed in Westminster Abbey he acquired the right of touching for the King's Evil. • It is highly doubtful whether he will use this prerogative; ...
... full title, The Form and Order of the Service that is to be Performed and the Ceremonies to be Obserped in the Coronation of King George VI. and Queen Elizabeth.' (Cloth, 3s. 6d. Leather, 10s. 6d.) A handsome production, with the rubrics in their traditional ...
... Home Affairs I.—King George VI. was crowned on Wednesday Our first King George came to the throne in (1) 1348, (2) 1623. (3) 1660. (4) 1702 (3) 1714. 2 —The first Queen Elizabeth never married She was daughter of (1) Richard 111.. (2) Henry VIII., (3) ...
... dress I bought the first stamps of the new reign in the Fleet Street, E.C., post office at midnight, last night. The new George VI. stamps are the green id., red Id. and blue 2id. At midnight, when the first stamps were passed through the grille, some ...
... Glamour of India: Jewelled Women WHILE the King and Queen were last night at a Coronation ball in Mayfair two Kings, three Queens and 21 other royal. ties were there Indian Princes and Princesses, gorgeously bejewelled, were at a reception to meet the ...