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PROFILE of Sir Robert Mayer, a naturalized Englishman, past 100 years of age, who has worked, and is still working to bring music to young people. He was …
Mollie Panter-Downes
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PROFILE of the British Museum.
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PROFILE of Algernon Charles Swinburne & Theodore Watts-Dunton, who lived together 30 years at The Pines in Putney, England. Tells about the latter years of…
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PROFILE of Algernon Charles Swinburne & Theodore Watts-Dunton, who lived together 30 years at The Pines. Tells mostly about the work that each writer …
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PROFILE of Ootacamund, or Ooty, in the Blue Hills of South India, known as the Queen of the Hill Stations in British colonial days. In 1908 Sir Frederick …
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PROFILE of Ootacamund, or Ooty, in Indian, known as the Queen of the Hill Stations in British colonial days, because of its beauty & cool climate. The …
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Mollie Panter-Downes on the affair between John Profumo and Christine Keeler, which brought down the government of British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan.
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REPORTER AT LARGE about London's Royal Parks. Hyde Park covers 361 acres. In 1536, Henry VIII proclaimed the area of the future Hyde Park &Kensington …
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PROFILE of E. M. Forster, the English novelist, Honorary Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, and resident of King's. Some comparisons between …
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REPORTER AT LARGE about the remains of a Roman Temple of Mithras discovered some months ago in London during excavations by a team working for the Roman …
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“It was probably the most superb and certainly the most moving one that anybody now living has seen,” Mollie Panter-Downes reported from London, in 1953.
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Mollie Panter-Downes on London’s coronation preparations for Queen Elizabeth II’s big day.
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Mollie Panter-Downes reports from London about the days following King George VI’s tragically unexpected death and Elizabeth II’s rise to the throne.
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REPORTER AT LARGE about an exhibit, which is a Festival of Britain project, of Sherlock Holmes's personal belongings and various other objects …
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Mollie Panter-Downes reports from London on the Trooping of the Colour ceremony, in 1951, and its outstanding figure, Princess Elizabeth on horseback: “the lone apex of an otherwise massively masculine show.”
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PROFILE of Ninette de Valois, the director of the Sadler's Wells Ballet. In 1923, her dancing teacher, Enrico Cecohetti, insisted that she try out at a…
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Reporter at Large about the Duggan family, of Wapping, who were bombed out three times during the war. Their first house was wrecked by a high-explosive …
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REPORTER AT LARGE about the squatter movement in London, engineered by Communists. Visit, description of the flats in Kensington Gardens; conversation with…
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REPORTER AT LARGE about a visit to Durley, in Hamsphire, a camp for Jewish children brought to England from Nazi concentration camps. Belsen and Buchenwald…
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REPORTER AT LARGE about London children, billeted all over England during the blitz, and now being returned to their homes. In a single week, the …
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A REPORTER AT LARGE about the most bombed-out family in London, the Duggans, mother, father, and thirteen children.
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PROFILE of Robert Anthony Eden, Britain's Foreign Secretary.
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PROFILE of Lord Woolton, former Minister of Food, who has been appointed to the post of England's first Minister of Reconstruction.
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In the middle of a global war, Mollie Panter-Downes writes of a serious-faced young Princess who may one day mount England’s ancient throne.
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REPORTER AT LARGE about small war production plants strew over the English countryside. Visit to such a plant in Surrey. It is a subsidiary to a large …
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REPORTER AT LARGE about a visit to one of the thirty National Camp Schools, which have been set up with the government's blessing and financial …
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Reporter at Large about the National Council of Social Service in London, an agency equipped to deal with such trouble as the inarticulate masses to whom …
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REPORTER AT LARGE about the London Zoological Gardens. Dr. Huxley is secretary of the Zoological Society which runs the Zoo.
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REPORTER AT LARGE: St. Thomas Hospital. The hospital has had a number of crises to face up to since it started off as part of a priory at Southwark in the …
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Writing in 1940, Mollie Panter-Downes reports on the fortitude of Londoners during German air raids.
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REPORTER AT LARGE about the London Air Raid Patrol. Visit to stretcher-party post and the ambulance depot; description of the headquarters, and an air raid…