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...YEARS WITH CHURCHILL (167 pp.)-Norman McGowan-British Book Centre...
...young Norman McGowan's finest hour when he was called upon in 1949 to be Churchill's valet and provide some of these necessary things. Recollecting his three years of service with the grand old man, McGowan has written an ingratiating book, seemingly almost by inadvertence. It is the English story on the classic theme of master and man that has been exploited by everyone from Shakespeare to Wodehouse. But no Jeeves is McGowan, no Wooster Churchill...
Kind Hearts & Coronas. McGowan was three years out of wartime sea duty when he was hired by the Churchills. Neither the Royal Navy nor the intense respectability of a good working-class family in Lancashire had prepared him for the oddities of the aristocracy. "Wow! Wow!" Mrs. Churchill would call from the hall at Chartwell, the Prime Minister's residence, as she arrived home...
...Valet McGowan today works as a barman in Liverpool. On his showing, it could be gathered that any man who says a harsh word against his guv'nor will get a very short beer...
Meet Lieut. Colonel McGowan. When France fell in June 1940, Ambassador Bullitt returned to the U.S., and Murphy became the top-ranking American in a France divided between the German occupation in the North and the Vichy French government in the South. Main aim of U.S. policy: to keep the German-Italian Axis out of strategic French North Africa. In December 1940, Murphy went to Algiers, negotiated a deal with the Vichy authorities to supply them with U.S. economic aid and U.S. "technical assistants," soon took charge of an expanding North African intelligence network. North Africa began Murphy...