18 AUGUST 1950, Page 5

The bulletin had been posted outside Clarence House. In an

hour or less " Princess " would be in the headlines of the next edition of all the evening papers, and the citizens would be able to satisfy their curiosity without laying out a penny. Meanwhile, the information they wanted was tucked away in the Stop Press, and in this profitable interim newsvendors all over London were chalking, " The Royal Baby : Official," on their bills. Economists, who are always inventing jargon for things that few of us under- stand, ought to look up a term for this attack on a target of opportunity in the field of supply and demand.

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