Word: 80th
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Winston Churchill's 80th birthday celebration and the critical storm over Graham Sutherland's Churchill portrait were obviously stories to be reported. Honor Balfour, TIME'S parliamentary specialist, got the assignment. Reporters drew lots for passes to the ceremony in crowded Westminster Hall, and Correspondent Balfour was lucky enough to get one. Nearly everyone got a glimpse of the Sutherland portrait in the hall, but few had a close view. Reporter Balfour previously had arranged for a private viewing through the good offices of her friend Mrs. Sutherland, the artist's wife. All of which contributed...
...enthusiasm and gratitude, Britain seemed ready last week to deify Sir Winston Churchill on the spot as he made his stately progress toward his 80th birthday. Birthday gifts poured into 10 Downing Street; his birthday fund passed $300,000 and was still rising. Debrett's editor rummaged through Churchill's female ancestry and announced happily that Churchill was of blood royal, through Henry VII, and therefore a descendant of Charlemagne, Alfred the Great and William the Conqueror. Parliament itself bustled over preparations for the unprecedented ceremony this week in the great hall which King William Rufus began...
...College's leading authorities on England last night gave Winston Churchill, the last living member of "The Big Three," their highest praise on the occasion of his 80th birthday today...
...Finest Hour (Sun. 7 p.m., NBC). Tribute to Sir Winston Churchill in honor of his 80th birthday...
...chairman under Presidents Roosevelt and Truman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee; in Laurel Springs. N.C. A self-made rich man (livestock, banking), shrewd, backwoodsy "Farmer Bob" took over the tax-initiating Ways and Means Committee in 1933, and for two decades (except for the Republican controlled 80th Congress) bossed it through the vast revenue-raising needed for depression and war. Determinedly cracker-barrel (Taxation is a matter of "getting the most feathers with the least squawks from the goose"), Tax-Planner Doughton tried to follow the fiscal center lane, grumbled disapprovingly about "Soak-the-Rich" programs...