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Under the leveling influence of the Labor government, many a land-poor British lord was proving willing to provide (for a price) a firsthand answer to questions like this one asked by 18th Century Poet Alexander Pope after a visit to Blenheim Palace...
Last week, to earn some extra money for its upkeep and taxes, the huge doors of Blenheim Palace itself were thrown open to the public for four days weekly. Over the Easter weekend more than 4,000 visitors paid two shillings sixpence apiece to wander through Blenheim's halls, gawp at the tiny bedroom where Winston Churchill was born, and stare at the battle flags of his great ancestor, the first Duke of Marlborough, Blenheim's builder. On hand to show them around and plug the sale of a guidebook (threepence the copy) was Blenheim's present...
...flashy crop of two-year-olds, neatly named as usual by Mrs. Warren Wright. One is Shine Boy, a bay colt whose Calumet Farm report card carries these impressive comments: "Extremely great hay-eater . . . has everything a good horse needs." Another is a fiery chestnut named Urgent: "top Blenheim II colt." Nevertheless, Ben Jones suspects that when Derby Day, 1950, rolls around, a brown son of Bull Lea may be the colt to beat. His name: All Blue...
...noble House of Marlborough, it was a far cry from the great days when John Churchill, the first Duke, fought gloriously for England at Blenheim and Sarah, his wife, conspired in the boudoir of her bosom friend Queen Anne. Since then, Britain's empire had dawned and passed high noon. In the twilight of this empire, the family name had been kept bright by a commoner named Winston Churchill. Last week, however, the Marl-boroughs were once again in the forefront of the news. In London, gossips linked the names of Princess Margaret and the 22-year-old Marquess...
Painter Winston Churchill was doing all right: three of his paintings (Blenheim Tapestries; Goldfish Pool, Chartwell; The Blue Sitting Room, Trent Park) were accepted for this year's Royal Academy exhibition...