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...winter of World War I. Ninety years ago this week was born the only man who, in his own words, "passed through both the two supreme cataclysms of recorded history in high Cabinet office." It is a mark of the world's affection and deep respect for Sir Winston Churchill that his birthday is celebrated almost as a national anniversary throughout ' the free world...
...antediluvian," as he styled himself in 1940, range from an hour-long BBC television show built around his favorite songs to a radio play about the second most illustrious of the Churchills, the Duke of Marl borough. At dozens of observances throughout the U.S., Americans contributed funds to the Winston Churchill Memorial- at Fulton, Mo., commemorating the historic 1946 "Sinews of Peace" speech at Westminster College, in which Churchill urged the Western world to close ranks again in the face of a threat to peace as formidable as any it had yet seen: "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste...
Britannican Lyrics. To demonstrate his fitness, Coward took over this week as master of ceremonies on a 90-minute BBC television tribute to Sir Winston Churchill on the eve of his 90th birth day. Noting all this, the Times of London felt moved to write a tribute to Coward too. "Here, through and through, is a craftsman," explained the Times, "who has remained at the top of his profession for longer perhaps than any other living English playwright, simply because he has dedicated his life not to attitudes or to transient theatrical movements but to getting on with his work...
...Finest Hours is a skillfully assembled and frequently moving sketch of the magnificent statesman-warrior-historian-painter-orator-bully who turned 90 yesterday, Winston S. Churchill. The film has nothing to offer in the way of balanced evaluations of Churchill's place in world history. But it does provide some insight into the qualities of his life...
THAT WAS YVETTE by Bettina Knapp and Myra Chipman. 380 pages. Holt, Rinehart and Winston...