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WINSTON LEONARD SPENCER CHURCHILL is fond of his collection of goldfish. When he approaches their pools in the lovely grounds of his country house at Chartwell Manor in Kent, the goldfish dart eagerly toward him. Churchill, wearing his familiar siren suit, an overcoat of a peculiarly bilious pea green draped over his shoulders, was feeding them one afternoon this week. One hand held the inevitable black cigar, and the other dipped into the tin of fish food proffered by his bodyguard...
...Style. Sickert himself kept on bubbling until the age of 82. At 72 he caused a sensation by exhibiting a portrait of George V painted from a photograph of the king in bowler and overcoat, pointing up the resemblance of the monarch to his bearded horse-trainer. At 74 he was made a Royal Academician, huffily resigned the following year because other Academy members failed to come to the defense of controversial Sculptor Jacob Epstein. In his last years, he changed his signature (from Walter to his middle name, Richard, because it seemed more euphonious), grew a sprawling beard...
...cold, dark, blustery winter morning, my gangling roommate took the window route with a paratrooper's magnificent form and timing precision. But a sudden gust blew the heavy dormers shut on his flying overcoat tails and left him hung corseted, pitiful and helpless against the barracks' wall, with toes inches from the ground. The streaming mass of humanity fighting for place in ranks ignored his screams, the last bugle note faded, rolls were checked and companies dismissed. Only then, officially absent from formation, did he get a helping hand. Now, 25 years later, the slightest allusion...
Between Yesterday & Tomorrow.After two shivering weeks in London (his British clothing points did not stretch to an overcoat), Auriol was flown to Algiers. He was a worried man. Both his wife and their son, Paul, had remained in France, working with the underground...
...still getting their news out. For example, Reuters' Alex Valentine wrote a story mentioning Brigadier Tom Brodie, commander of Britain's 29th Brigade. When the censor struck out Brodie's name and nationality, Valentine described him as "a United Nations brigadier wearing a British military overcoat," and the censor passed...