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...childhood far from ideal. His early picture of his mother: "In a riding habit, fitting like a skin and often beautifully spotted with mud . . . she shone for me like the Evening Star. I loved her dearly-but at a distance." Even more remote was his father, Lord Randolph Churchill, brilliant and erratic Chancellor of the Exchequer (1886), who died when Winston was 20. Lord Randolph thought that Winston was not bright enough to study law; one day after watching the boy play with his host of 1,500 toy soldiers, Lord Randolph decided Winston's career should...
...appraising eye over "Bootsie's" figure. Sweetly, she remarked that Bootsie, who gave birth to a son six months before, looked quite "robust." In her next column, Evie elaborated on her suspicions: "The stork, so 'they' say, is once more hovering some distance over the William Randolph Hearst Jrs.' . . . house, right on the heels of William Randolph Hearst III's first encounter with this bitter old world . . ." Washington dowagers and debutantes, who find the pearls in Evie's column as important as the pearl onions in their Gib sons, promptly swallowed the news. After...
...case, the U.S. could not go on with its present policies without running into serious trouble. "We are so prosperous and rich that we can violate the rules for a time "and get away with it," warned W. Randolph Burgess, executive committee chairman of Manhattan's National City Bank. "But economic laws have a way of working out, and eventually we will have to pay the penalty." For the Government's deficit spending, U.S. citizens may have to start paying the penalty in higher prices in short order. Warned he: the U.S. may be in for another round...
Last week, Moscow's Literary Gazette proved once again that Soviet truth is relative, flexible and pragmatic. Said the Literary Gazette: "It is well known that [during the war] the coward Tito and his entourage were spending their time on the island of Vis, attending drinking parties with Randolph Churchill in the port of Bari, while [Soviet] Marshal Tolbukhin's armies, after annihilating Hitler's divisions, were occupying Belgrade . . . Such are the facts of history...
Last week Tussaud's was shaken; their reputation for accuracy was at stake; if Stalin was too tall, they stood prepared to cut him down. Said Randolph Churchill, wartime liaison officer with Yugoslav guerrillas, "Having seen both Tito and Stalin, I would have no hesitation in asserting that Stalin is several inches shorter than Tito-and is certainly in no position to go around calling him a dwarf...