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...Least a Month." The attached medical report, signed by the old P.M.'s own medical adviser. Lord Moran, and by Sir Russell Brain, Harley Street neurologist and president of the Royal College of Physicians, was short and unspecific: "The Prime Minister has had no respite for a long time from his very arduous duties, and is in need of a complete rest. We have therefore advised him to abandon his journey to Bermuda and to lighten his duties for at least a month...
...taking a rest at his country home. Chartwell, and, on his very first weekend there, presided over a jolly luncheon party which included Lord Beaverbrook. "Well, at least I've pushed that fellow Christie off the front page," said Churchill (see below). After lunch, when he asked Lord Moran if a Cointreau was permitted, the doctor replied: "Do you want it or do you need it?" Replied Sir Winston: "I neither want it nor need it, but I should think it pretty hazardous to interfere with the ineradicable habit of a lifetime...
...Charles Moran, executive secretary of the S.C.C.A. and a veteran of France's famed Le Mans 24-hour race, spoke up for the disgruntled drivers. "It's the European view," said Moran, "that these accidents will happen occasionally. But at Le Mans, the spectators never trespass in a forbidden or dangerous area...
Indicative of the human interest in his first editions is his copy of the Ingoldsby Legends. Through a printer's error, a page of the first few copies was left blank. In giving one of the special copies to his friend E.R. Moran, the author wrote on that page...
Ahal my friend Moran, I have you. You'll look...