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...anguish of mind was not so great, however, that he could not find time to write one more book (bringing his total, including the six volumes of his masterpiece, Marlborough, a biography of his famed warrior ancestor, to 19); to write articles, lecture, gamble, and swell his income to around $100,000 a year, to potter around his estate at "Chartwell," where he relaxes by putting up small brick buildings-he once belonged to a bricklayers' union-to play a little polo, paint tolerable landscapes which he exhibited under the name of "Charles Marin," and to organize a group...
...Germans outflanked the obstructive cuestas by slipping into the Paris Basin from the Flanders Plain, where the stony outcroppings tend to disappear. This Flanders Plain is an extension of the Baltic Plain that runs all the way from the North Sea to Russia. There Winston Churchill's great ancestor, the first Duke of Marlborough, won his victories of Ramillies (1706) and Malplaquet (1709). There the French under the great Marshal Saxe defeated the British and the Dutch at Fontenoy in 1745. There Waterloo was fought and Napoleon finally defeated in 1815. The Flanders Plain is protected to the East...
...Ancestor of the famed 19th-Century evangelist and hymn-writer, Dwight Moody...
...Party. Highlights of his long Parliamentary career include opposition to entrance into the World War and the rallying of a Parliamentary faction to support King Edward VIII in the Wallis Warfield Simpson crisis (". . . an insult to the United States"). Colonel Wedgwood's big heart, like that of his ancestor who backed the American Rebels of 1776, burns for all oppressed peoples, including Spaniards, Czechs and Jews, but he abhors spinelessness. The fighting Colonel last week lit into the Government, but he also lit into the Palestine Jews for "continually whining," urged them to blow up a few bridges...
...Quincy, Mass., not far from the starting-point of his ancestor's famed midnight ride, Paul Revere, 22, handyman, passed his auto driving test...