GREAT BRITAIN: Royal Week

Driving through London last week His Royal Highness the Duke of Kent, handsomest member of the Royal Family, came dutifully to a halt in front of a rope stretched across a street. From it hung a sign which in the past fortnight has become a familiar sight in many parts of the city: "DANGER—UNEXPLODED BOMB."

Precisely at this moment the unexploded Nazi bomb exploded and a shower of rubble dinned like hail on the roof of the Duke's car. When His Royal Highness jumped out, grinning and ruefully rubbing his ears, which still...

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