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Karsh's good friend, Prime Minister Mackenzie King, persuaded reluctant Winston Churchill to pose for the "local photographer" in the Speaker's Library at the House of Commons. Churchill grumpily lit a cigar and growled that he would give "two minutes for one shot." With a quick movement Karsh plucked the cigar out of the Prime Minister's mouth. As Churchill glared balefully at this impudence, Karsh clicked his shutter. The picture was published (in LIFE), and Karsh's reputation was made...
...advanced, some men turned their backs. He managed to grab the hands of a few and ducked into the Democratic cloakroom. Then he reappeared in the rear of the Chamber, sucking on a cigar, and shook hands with Tennessee's old spoilsman, Kenneth McKellar. The arena was noisy with confusion. On the rostrum Senate Secretary Leslie Biffle banged the little ivory block on the desk of the presiding officer and convened the Senate of the 80th Congress...
...Senator from Ohio [Taft] is not yet the whole Senate, no matter what he may think about it." South Carolina's Burnet Maybank shouted hoarsely: "After all, Mississippi is a sovereign state." After all, Bilbo was Mississippi's choice. Bilbo slouched at his old desk, clutching his cigar...
...committee listened attentively, while Bilbo mangled a cigar. Then Michigan's Homer Ferguson, a relentless inquisitor, switched his approach. He asked Terry what he had done with the $15,000 given him by New York radical Simon Liberman for use against Bilbo in Mississippi's Democratic primary last July. Abruptly, Terry refused to answer and the committee cited him for contempt...
Fortnight ago, eccentric Millionaire-Engineer Davis revealed his version of a fey project for a Dover war memorial pro posed last summer (TIME, July 29). Davis' idea: an 80-foot statue of Winston Churchill holding a mammoth cigar over his head like the Statue of Liberty torch, mounted on a 100-foot-high pedestal bearing an inscription, "Never was so much owed by so many to one man," which thoroughly squeezed the juice from a great Churchillism. A model (see cut) was prepared by a New Hampshire sculptor, Viggo Brandt-Erickson. Davis offered his idea to the mayors...