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...more even and not subject to sudden thaws. At each end of the rink there are fixed bull's-eye targets (see diagram). Each player on a four-man team, captained by an authoritarian "skip," gets two shots at the target on each round. With a bowler's arm-swinging motion, the curler hoists a 40-lb. circular (maximum circumference: 36 in.) stone,* and sends it slithering down the ice toward the "tee line" bull's-eye. If the stone falls short of the "hog line," it is automatically removed from the rink; if it slides beyond...
...farm near Chartwell, Kent, followed their ten-year-old custom of baking a birthday cake for their well-known neighbor Winston Churchill. For the Prime Minister's 77th birthday, they delivered to 10 Downing Street a monumental 80-lb. confection in the shape of a flat-topped bowler hat, heavily iced with chocolate and decorated with 200 fancy sugary feathers commemorating some of the honors and triumphs in the long Churchillian career.† Biggest feather of all bore the name Clementine, for his wife, who has shared his ups & downs for the past 43 years...
...whole, Churchill's cabinet looked pretty good to almost everybody. The Tailor & Cutter, London's august arbiter of men's fashions, captivated by the Churchill ministry's "recognition of the Edwardian look" and "its disciplined adoption of the formal white stiff collar and town-wear bowler hat," said that the new cabinet is "the best dressed we have had for a number of years...
From Liverpool, Winnie popped down to Woodford, his constituency in Essex. Sporting a square bowler and an eight-inch cigar, he drove through roars of "Good Old Winnie," halting at street corners to scribble autographs, pat children's heads and deride the Socialists' "ill-natured criticism of the Americans." He tells the voters: "We make no promises of easier conditions in the immediate future. Too much harm has been done." His biggest appeal: he reminds Britons of national greatness. Workers, cheering a Churchill appearance while still resolved to vote Labor, often explain: "Winnie's above politics...
...back to the baffled authorities, chase after the little girls and then, in turn, become the object of a nationwide manhunt, slapsticky with pratfalls, hairbreadth escapes and colliding police cars. Highlight: Guinness eluding his pursuers by fading invisibly into a throng of Britons, all identical in sack coats, bowler hats and umbrellas...