People: The British Look

In Newcastle, to dedicate a new engineering section at Kings College, the Duke of Edinburgh unfurled for the first time his own personal standard, recently approved by his father-in-law. Three feet long and two feet wide (impaled with his own arms and those of Elizabeth), the pennant includes a total of ten lions: six English, three Danish and one Scottish.

In Manhattan for a short visit, Norman Hartnell, dress designer for the royal family, answered some fashion queries. British women, he said, looked their best in “classic” tweeds; French women “in little black cocktail frocks”; and American women “looked good in anything.” How about his distinguished customers? Queen Elizabeth, Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret, he said, traditionally choose pastel colors. Reason: they offer better visibility in a public appearance.

Announcement of former Prime Minister Clement Attlee’s dissolution honors list included an earldom for Viscount Jowitt, the Labor government’s Lord Chancellor; a Companionship of Honor for its Foreign Secretary Herbert Morrison; a baronage for David Kirkwood, thistly Scottish labor leader; and a knighthood for Dr. Walter Fergusson Hannay, the surgeon who cleared up Attlee’s foot eczema and his duodenal ulcer.