Word: morgans
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...William Morgan Stewart, born March 18, 1937, in Dundee, Scotland, graduate of Towson (Md.) High School, Johns Hopkins University and University of Edinburgh (Scotland), former U.S. Foreign Service Officer (in Bombay, Washington and South Viet Nam), and TIME correspondent since 1971, is taking a vacation. Finally. After a week of temporary duty in Jerusalem, Stewart, the magazine's Middle East bureau chief, is planning two weeks in Greece and Scotland, says he, to "sleep late and have long naps." For the past 2½ years, Stewart has lived and worked in West Beirut, reporting on, among other things...
CHURCHILL: YOUNG MAN IN A HURRY (1874-1915) by Ted Morgan...
...youngest Prime Minister in modern English history. But as the old novelist suggested, the cost of rising was exorbitant. Before the year was out, the promising Cabinet Minister was forced from government and self-exiled to the trenches in France as a common line officer. Destiny, observes Biographer Ted Morgan, was on holiday...
...Morgan shows, Churchill was never disturbed by such failures. Legislation was only his interest; language was his love. The famous oratorical style was not, as he liked listeners to think, a British invention. It was derived from an obscure Tammany Hall politician Churchill met in 1895 in the U.S. on his way to Cuba...
...somebody complaining about something." After just two weeks in office, Penberthy demoted himself back to alderman, while the board prevailed upon Daniel Shunck, the director of the high school band, to take over. In the meantime, several vacancies remain in the police department. One eager applicant? A chastened George Morgan, who claims to have learned his lesson. Says he: "The other policemen told me to watch who I wrote...