Word: edens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wine salesman in the Hamburg apart ment of a 35 -year-old divorcee. Reporters first heard that he was lying abed, naked; later, that he had on pink and white pajamas. He asked his captors if they would see to the delivery of letters he had written to Montgomery, Eden and "Wincent" Churchill, professing that he had never wanted war between Germany and the western Allies. He was, he said, "on a mission for the FÜhrer...
Died. Lady Sybil Eden, 78, mother of Anthony; in Windlestone, England. Of her son's ups-& -downs as British Foreign Secretary, she once remarked: "I often feel like bubbling over with pride, and at times like bursting into tears." Died. Amelie Rives (Princess Trou-betzkoy), 81, who, as a golden-haired Southern beauty in her twenties, scandal ized readers in the '80s and '90s with her popular novel, The Quick or the Dead; after long illness; in Charlottesville...
...partisan tallyho. Cried Labor's startled Daily Herald: "Crazy broadcast." Cried the Communist Daily Worker: "Conscienceless demagogy." Cried Labor Leader Herbert Morrison (lately Prime Minister Churchill's Secretary of Home Affairs): "Abusive scurrility." The Conservative Yorkshire Post (part owned by the family of Mrs. Anthony Eden, whose husband last week was ill of a duodenal ulcer) was solidly metaphoric: "Mr. Churchill went into action with all the flash and thunder of a battle cruiser opening fire...
Walter Winchell's blonde, 18-year-old actress-daughter Eileen-known to her friends as Walda, known professionally as Toni Eden-pulled a surprise wedding on her usually alert father. The groom: William Lawless, 29, art-student son of a retired Boston motorman. Next day Winchell reported the event with characteristic aplomb: "First man to scoop Walter Winchell in a long time is William Lawless. . . .'' Two days later, father scooped son-in-law by announcing that daughter had decided to annul...
...Anthony Eden, Britain's hard-toiling, far-traveling Foreign Secretary, came down with a duodenal ulcer, was ordered to take at least two weeks' "complete rest." While he is gone, his boss, Winston Churchill, and Minister of State Richard Law, will carry...