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n June 1953, when television was young, a rapt American viewing public clamored to see the coronation of Elizabeth, the 27-year-old royal about to be crowned Queen. The event was so all-consuming, the four television networks secretly planned to hire jet planes to “speed film across the ocean,” as we reported when