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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...
Last week flamboyant Davis had an answer wrapped in a typical British understatement. Said Mayor Arthur A. Goodfellow of Dover: "We agree that a memorial to Churchill might be a good thing, but something more modest and utilitarian would be preferable...
...Time. Only the much-discussed merger of Episcopalians and Presbyterians seemed as far off as ever (TIME, Sept. 23). But in last week's Christian Century, Methodist Pastor C. Stanley Lowell of Dover, Del., proposed a new and more promising church wedding for the Episcopalians. Wrote...
Plenty for All. In one hamlet 65 fishermen were taught to read and write in a year; in Little Dover a 65-year-old man learned to write. Now the movement has 40 full-time and part-time workers drawn from all creeds (unlike the regular St. F.X. staff of priests...
Berroeta expected to cross the Channel in eleven hours or less, but after 25 minutes, unable to see Dover's chalk cliffs ahead, he gave it up, promised to try again within ten days...