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...appearance. But the town's 1932 movie year climaxed with the showing (at the shocking premium evening rates of 50? to $1.50) of Grand Hotel. The stars: Greta Garbo, John Barrymore, Joan Crawford, Wallace Beery, Lionel Barrymore. Now those were names to conjure with, but others were around. Winston Churchill, bad boy of British politics, had just put out a book titled Amid These Storms about the unhappy drift of the democracies. Adolf Hitler was in the vestibules of German power and would pre-empt the inner sanctum come January of the next year. Joseph Stalin had the Soviet...
...quote Lincoln on that. Lincoln said that if he had lost the ability to laugh during the terrible times in which he presided, he could not have gone on-that the job would have been intolerable. I think one of the great compliments to Americans was given by Winston Churchill in the dark days of World War II when he said of American soldiers that they seemed to be the only people who could laugh and fight at the same time...
...rushed straight to the Knesset, where a seven-hour debate on his economic policies was already under way. As the gallery buzzed with excitement, a roll call of the Knesset kept Begin in power by the slimmest margin yet, 57 to 54. Afterward he tried to be philosophical: "As Winston Churchill used to say, in a democracy, one [vote] is enough...
...flash of what Winston Churchill called the "second coming in wrath" could be seen as far as 250 miles away...
...scrimping. In the three years since he moved into his parents' Miami house, one 24-year-old rock-music reporter has stashed away $6,000, bought a used car with cash and traveled to England on his $12,800 salary. His room and board: $15 per week. Winston Whitlock, 23, returned to his parents' Atlanta home-and his father's restaurant-supply business-after leaving the Air Force. He earns his keep through household chores...