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...Winston Churchill was born 101 years ago-under something of a cloud...
...Winston's mama, Jennie Jerome, she was that peculiarly erotic species, an American. Brooklyn-born Jennie had already caught the Prince of Wales' cruising eye. As Randolph reached for political power, the Prince-and other men-reached for Jennie. Yet when it became apparent that Randolph had contracted syphilis, the prodigious Jen nie abandoned her great love (an Austrian diplomat) to take her mad hus band round the world. She outlived him by 26 love-filled years and married not one but two men as young as her son Winston. When she was dying in great pain...
...Christ." When asked instead to reorganize Britain's airlines into a single state-owned corporation, Reith felt slighted. He found it degrading to work under Air Minister Kingsley Wood, whom he described as "a bally crook" and a "little swine." In May 1940, Prime Minister Winston Churchill appointed him Minister of Transport, but Reith's satisfaction was undermined by bitterness that the more important Aircraft Production Ministry was given to Lord Beaverbrook. "To no one is the vulgar designation shit more appropriately applied" is the way Reith tidily sums up Beaverbrook...
Jose Ferrer impersonates Joe Stalin. John Houseman is Winston Churchill. Ed Flanders is Harry Truman. They were all gathered together on location outside Hamburg for a Hallmark Hall of Fame TV special entitled "Truman at Potsdam." "Truman was an honest, practical man of little intrigue," observed Flanders, best known for his 1974 Tony Award-winning role in A Moon for the Misbegotten. "I just had to stand up straight." Houseman, who won a 1973 Academy Award for his supporting role in The Paper Chase, learned to smoke cigars for his portrayal of Churchill and then picked up some of Winnie...
...pages. Holt, Rinehart & Winston...