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...people* crowded into the Nelson Gallery of Art, setting a new one-day record. By the time the Kansas City showing closes this week, some 20,000 will have seen Sir Winston's impressionist-style canvases, ranging from a wartime scene of Flanders' "Plug Street" (Ploegsteert, Belgium, as translated by World War I Tommies), painted in 1916, down to last year's landscape of the French Riviera seen from Villa La Pausa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Great Churchill Debate | 2/10/1958 | See Source »

Fighting in India, in the Soudan, in the Boer War, he walked or rode through many a space filled with pinging bullets. In World War I, German shells demolished a dugout five minutes after he had left it. Shortly after that, he was in a "Plug-street" (Ploegsteert, a village in Flanders) farmhouse when a shell came through the roof, wounded only his adjutant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: One More Close Call | 12/27/1943 | See Source »

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