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Nervous about his debut on the Home Service? "Is it likely?" sniffed Winston Churchill, 24. "That hardly runs in the family," considering that his famous grandfather gave the BBC some of its finest hours in World War II. Leaving as little as possible to Mendelian chance, young Churchill started off his daily lunchtime news-and-interviews half hour by asking his first guest, Veteran Pundit Alistair Cooke, "What tips can you give me?" "If you try to be somebody else," cautioned Cooke, "you're lost." So the fledgling commentator skipped politics next day, and interviewed Humorist Malcolm Muggeridge...
...Ambassadeurs. He operated it as a club, as most London nightspots are because of drinking-hours regulations, made membership available to nearly anyone with an air of urbanity and $30 as initiation fee, payable at the door. Its 10,000 members now include the Duke of Edinburgh, Sir Winston Churchill, the Sheik of Kuwait and Cary Grant. The place exudes an atmosphere of luxury, with its heavy carpets, dark brocades and carved woodwork...
Died. Richard Joshua Reynolds, 58, playboy heir to a king-size slice of his father's tobacco empire (Camel, Winston, Salem), who scorned the family trade to become a taxi driver, deck hand, aviator, ship owner, horse breeder and sometime Democratic politician, managing meanwhile to run through $10 million of his $25 million inheritance settling three marriages; of chronic pulmonary emphysema; in Lucerne, Switzerland, 36 hours before his fourth wife gave birth to a daughter...
...vision was there when the smoke of World War II lifted. As early as 1946, Winston Churchill gave it breath in summoning the Old World to "make a kind of United States of Europe." In 1947, the Marshall Plan began to give it bone and sinew. In 1950, with the Schuman Plan to pool the Continent's coal-and-steel resources, it began to stir. It envisioned nothing less than a prosperous united Europe athwart one Atlantic littoral, allied with the U.S. on the other side-two giants whose joint democratic and humane stand for freedom everywhere would...
SELECTED LETTERS OF ROBERT FROST edited by Lawrance Thompson. 645 pages. Holt, Rinehart & Winston...