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While such tributes were being sounded in a chamber still vibrant with his personality. Winston Churchill himself was busy entertaining the Downing Street staff at tea, snapping quips at parlormaids and secretaries alike, and preparing to go home to Kent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Prime Backbencher | 4/18/1955 | See Source »

Toby, into one of the two cars headed for Chartwell, tears stood once again in the old man's eyes. But by the time he 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Prime Backbencher | 4/18/1955 | See Source »

...Author Irvine's fault if Darwin the man almost steals the whole show. Imbedded in crustaceans, orchids, insectivorous plants and earthworms. Darwin seems at one moment the most innocent and lovable of sages, at the next the most cunning of nervous foxes. From Down House, his retreat in Kent, he issued a stream of letters to his disciples and champions, urging them on, tactfully setting them straight, occasionally punctuating his orders with childlike cries of "Oh my gracious!" Far away, in sooty London, in learned Berlin, in skeptical Paris, lesser Darwinian deities wielded his thunderbolts: bearded Titans of science...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Barnacles for All | 4/11/1955 | See Source »

...Commons. At 80, he has plans to travel to Russia as a "private person," just as his father did; to visit Germany and receive the Charlemagne Prize (for services to European unity) from the city of Aachen. He would continue to live at Chartwell, his lovely home in Kent, going to the House of Commons on special occasions to deliver speeches to which all the world would still listen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Farewell to Winston? | 3/28/1955 | See Source »

...recent bestseller called Marriage Is My Business, claims to have arranged some 5,000 successful matings. As a result of indoctrinating her clients with some mystical principles of reciprocal oneupmanship, only three of those matches, testifies Heather, have ended in divorce. Last week, however, a gentleman farmer from Kent, Michael Cox, seemed to have both Spouse Sponsor Jenner (real name: Heather Cox) and Humorist Potter one-down. In a forthright, lifemanly ploy, Farmer Cox sued Heather for divorce on grounds of adultery (uncontested), named Stephen Potter as corespondent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 28, 1955 | 3/28/1955 | See Source »

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