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Winston Churchill was whiling away several weeks painting the cliffs near Funchal, Madeira, marking time until he goes back to take part in Britain's coming general elections (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...connection with the article concerning deep freezer gifts, etc. [TIME, Sept. 12], I would call to your attention the words of an other public official on the subject of the receipt of gifts. John Quincy Adams, in writing to the U.S. consul in Madeira, after receiving a hogshead of wine, said, in requesting a bill for the wine...
...four leaders: the Amazon, the Parana, the Madeira, the Puriis...
...Capetown, South Africa reader, TIME had an equally interesting effect. He wrote that a young lady living in a small town in New York gave her copy of the Feb. 15, 1948 issue of TIME to the Red Cross, which put it aboard a British passenger ship at Madeira, where he got hold of it. When he got to Capetown, where he was working his way as a seaman, he wrote a letter thanking the young lady, whose stenciled name and address were on the cover of her copy of TIME. The upshot of that was that they began...
Samuel Goldwyn, after a successful prostate operation, checked out of Manhattan's Harkness Pavilion, where he had quietly observed his 24th wedding anniversary, with wife Frances and a bottle of Madeira, smuggled past the doctors...