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Earning his passport, Craig served well as a divisional staff officer (G3) with the 80th Infantry Division, which landed on Utah Beach and was in combat for 239 days in Europe in 1944-45. With the 80th Craig picked up administrative experience under heavy pressure, learned to shave with toilet soap (which he still uses instead of shaving cream), and made an important acquaintance. One day, when General Dwight Eisenhower visited the division's headquarters in the basement of a brick school building in the Saar, Major Craig was assigned to brief the general on the division...
Absolute Pressure? The debate went on all afternoon, and was resumed the next morning. At last an M.R.A. supporter moved an amendment that the Assembly send the report back to the council. Then the venerable Archbishop of York rose to a standing ovation in honor of his 80th birthday. "I have had experience of what is meant by pressure groups," he said...
...Winston Churchill's 80th birthday celebration and the critical storm over Graham Sutherland's Churchill portrait were obviously stories to be reported. Honor Balfour, TIME'S parliamentary specialist, got the assignment. Reporters drew lots for passes to the ceremony in crowded Westminster Hall, and Correspondent Balfour was lucky enough to get one. Nearly everyone got a glimpse of the Sutherland portrait in the hall, but few had a close view. Reporter Balfour previously had arranged for a private viewing through the good offices of her friend Mrs. Sutherland, the artist's wife. All of which contributed...
...that Richard II built, on the spot where Charles I was condemned to the scaffold and Cromwell proclaimed Lord Protector, where Britain's dead kings are mourned and its new ones feted, Sir Winston Churchill stood last week and received his country's heartfelt tributes on his 80th birthday. Before him, vast Westminster Hall (hard by the House of Commons) was packed with top-hatted peers and tiaraed peeresses, members of Parliament and their wives, from closest allies to such old antagonists as Aneurin Bevan...
During the splendorous presentation ceremony in big, drafty Westminster Hall last week, Parliament got its first look at the portrait it had commissioned as an 80th birthday gift for Sir Winston Churchill. The reaction was immediate, vehement, and split right down the middle of the aisle. "It's disgusting, ill-mannered," said Lord Hailsham. "A beautiful work, wonderful!" countered Nye Bevan. Privately the Prime Minister-whose distaste for modern art is well known-reportedly muttered: "It makes me look half-witted which I ain't." At the birthday ceremony he commented wryly: "The portrait is a remarkable example...