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Back Bench & Goldfish. Sir Winston, reluctant to retire but aware that he must, refused to steal any more thunder from Anthony Eden by appearing in the House of Commons on the day Eden took over. But the back-bench seat (actually on the front bench), which he firmly intends to hang onto, was standing ready and vacant for him. "The House has today lost one of the greatest frontbenchers in all its history," said Tory Walter Elliot, "but the backbenchers have gained the greatest backbencher of all times...
...reached his Kent home, the old Churchillian spirit was back to par. Some 30 villagers were on hand to meet him at the gate, and Churchill greeted them warmly. "Come on inside the grounds," he urged enthusiastically. "Come on, all of you, and have a look at my goldfish." The villagers swarmed in to take advantage of the invitation. "Yes," said Churchill, just before entering the house, "it's good to be home...
Jawaharlal Nehru last week accepted new tokens of concord from Red China: two spotted deer, a couple of long-necked cranes, and 100 fat goldfish swimming in bowls. Nehru thanked Red China's beaming donor. Chargé d'Affaires Shen Chien, but took Shen aside later on to ask about another recent consignment from Peking. How does it happen, asked Nehru, that Indian Communists are now selling Peking-printed maps that show 57,000 square miles of India's Assam, neighboring Burma, and Nehru's own ancestral Kashmir as districts of "People's China...
...Mythology. By the hundreds they have swarmed across a hundred thousand movie screens from Aliquippa to Zagazig -mice that talk and grubs that chainsmoke, squirrels wearing overalls, bashful bunnies, sexy goldfish, tongue-tied ducks and hounds on ice skates, dachshunds bow-tied, pigs at pianos, chickens doing Traviata-even worms that do the cootch...
Jawaharlal Nehru was 65 last week; among his presents were two spotted deer (Chinese symbols of longevity), two red-crested cranes and 100 goldfish from Red China's Chou Enlai...