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...SPLENDID PAUPER, by Allen Andrews. The zany life and beguiling times of Moreton Frewen, Winston Churchill's scapegrace uncle, who was born to lose with grace, charm and class...
...Reynolds, which has three of the best-selling cigarette brands (Camels, Winston and Salem), posted record sales ($495 million) and earnings ($36.4 million) last quarter. Still, profits were not much more than a millimeter above the same quarter in 1967 ($35.8 million) and, notably, much of the increase was earned in the company's nontobacco business (including Chun King foods, Vermont Maid syrups...
Kipling's instructions are clear enough: ;'If you can make one heap of all your winnings;/ And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,/ And lose, and start again at your beginnings . . ." Moreton Frewen, Winston Churchill's scapegrace uncle, could do all of this and did, time after time, with astonishingly consistent results. He kept on losing...
...adopted), and the hawking of a patent disinfectant called Electrozone. If his promotion was good, his financing was inadequate, and if both were good, someone cheated him out of his commission. He borrowed from his brothers, his friends, their friends and his children, and lectured his nephew Winston on politics and the art of prose composition...
Died. Sir Alexander Cadogan, 83, British diplomat who was his country's first delegate to the United Nations; in London. Cool and detached, impeccable in dress and manner, Cadogan came to epitomize the "Foreign Office type" during his 42-year career, was a chief wartime adviser to Winston Churchill as head of the Foreign Office from 1938 to 1946, and with peace sounded a note of quiet logic amid all the squabbles at the infant...