Word: southampton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Queen Mary slipped into Southampton last week, British reporters begged Winston Churchill, "Could you give us one of your famous sentences? 'Whatever the outlook is, it's getting better' or something like that? Everybody is waiting...
...five mid-Atlantic days the old warrior wrestled with i) a heavy cold, and 2) Britain's bloody embroilment with Egyptian nationalism. By ship-to-shore radio, Churchill kept in touch with Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, approving the government's decision to reinforce Suez. Safe ashore at Southampton, Churchill had a brief word to say about his trip to Washington: "I've never had such a warm welcome, not even in wartime." Then he sped to London to take charge of the Egyptian crisis, to report to the cabinet on foreign matters, and to hear their latest...
...following Yuletide take to the Kansas City Times: six pieces of double-bubble chewing gum, one bottle of Night in Bagdad perfume, three pictures of Actor Lash Larue, two rolls of mints, a loaded cigar, a Dewey-for-President badge. ¶ Gift of the week: the 30-room Southampton, N.Y. mansion of Manhattan Stockbroker Charles E. Merrill to his alma mater Amherst College. Amherst's plan for the mansion: to set up a Merrill School of Economics for advanced summer training of students who show "marked talent as promising economists." ¶ In Switzerland, Geneva police banned the sale...
Died. James Watson Gerard, 84, topflight corporation lawyer, U.S. Ambassador to Germany during World War I (1913-17); of a bronchial ailment; in Southampton, N.Y. A conservative Democrat, he came, like Franklin D. Roosevelt, from a wealthy old New York family, pleased his countrymen by his brass-knuckled attitude toward Germany's haughty World War I diplomats. When one of them warned that 500,000 Germans in America would rise up if the U.S. entered the war, Gerard coldly replied that the U.S. had 500,000 lampposts from which to hang them. When the U.S. entered...
Last week Trabert got another trophy and looked more impressive than ever as he whipped the U.S.'s No. 2 player, Herb Flam, 6-2, 10-8, 5-7, 6-3, in the Southampton final. This week Tony is seeded No. 2 in the Eastern Grass Court championships at Orange, N.J. to meet top-seeded Dick Savitt, Wimbledon champion...