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Agitated party leaders Lord Woolton and Anthony Eden scurried to Keynoter Winston Churchill in his cerise-&-cream, modernistic suite. After hours of discussion, morning found cigar-smoking Churchill sitting up in bed, dictating a new and more soothing speech in 500-word blocks to two secretaries in relays.* That afternoon, while 4,000 people jammed every balcony and corridor, Senior Oracle Winston Churchill gave the young rebels a few answers, then cannily diverted their attention to subjects on which they could happily agree. Clutching his coat lapel with one hand and stabbing the air with the other, he strode into...
...said he was a cousin to the late King Alfonso of Spain, and he drew himself up to his full 5 ft. 7 in. when doubters wanted to stick pins in him to see if he had hemophilia. He had no Hapsburg lip either, but he did have cigar boxes chockablock with $1,000 bills, though no one ever got really close enough to find out if they were real. He scooted around in a Duesenberg and gave fancy dinner parties (guests remembered, later, that a waitress always read the menu...
Victor Moore lowered his bubble-shaped person into a lovely marble tub, assumed a moderately rapt expression, and, clutching his cigar, gave the world a change from the usual bubble-bath picture (see cut). The secret of his basketball-sized bubbles he kept to himself...
...backlog of orders. The deal had more than mere bigness. It was a shrewd move by both planemakers: their products would fit together like clasped hands. Among them were the shark-bodied Constellation; the fat-bellied Constitution; the six-engined XB-36, the "flying cigar"; the Shooting Star. There would be civilian models, from four-seater personal planes to 400-passenger transports; for the Army & Navy everything from "Flying Jeeps" to four-engined jet bombers...
Shuffling briskly between fervent opinion and intimate revelation, As He Saw It is far more interesting in the second role. Elliott must be one of a tiny handful who have seen Winston Churchill "stalking about the room, clad only in a cigar." Bits like this and F.D.R.'s comments on his contemporaries, as remembered by Elliott, will be noted by more serious biographers. Sample F.D.R. comments...