NEW YORK (UP) -- The "radiant queen" brightened newspapers throughout the United States and brought uncounted requests for reprints to United Press bureaus.
New York newspapers gave prominent treatment to the sparkling picture of Queen Elizabeth II in the Irish state coach en route to open the British parliament, with the morning tabloids News and Mirror both devoting full pages to it.
In Great Britain, the picture continued to evoke heavy requests for copies, and much editorial comment, one authoritative weekly saying it "is likely to become picture of the era."
Churchill Asks Picture
The picture was made Tuesday by United Press photographer Charles James Dawson, and, a pool arrangement made in London asking for them and congratulating photographer Dawson.
One order from a British family, delivered promptly by the post office, was addressed merely to "the photographic agency that took the picture of the queen."
"Wonderful Picture"
Great Britain's largest weekly, The Recorder, reproducing the picture today, said:
"The camera does not lie but sometimes it is fortunate. This photograph of Queen Elizabeth on her way to the state opening of parliament is likely to become the picture of the era... it captures a laugh, not a smile. The queen is not weighted by her cares of state now nor the coronation to come. Indeed, she is enjoying them... There is present history and promise to a great future in this wonderful picture... This photograph presents the true queen to her people."
Dawson joined United Press photos when he was mustered out of the British army after World War II. He won the empire medal for gallantry behind the enemy lines in Italy.
