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Life on the Fringes. Brown-haired Subaltern Mary Churchill had a busy, flattering vacation. Quebec girls sent her bundles of fan mail. She went shopping, headed straight for the underwear counter, confided to the clerk: "The ones I've got on, I made out of the skirt of an old evening dress." She held a press conference, described her father as "awfully nice to work for and not a bit difficult...
Official aide-de-camp to Prime Minister Winston Churchill at Quebec: Subaltern Mary Churchill, of the Auxiliary Territorial Service...
...proper politician. He tried three times, a boisterous, hard-hitting, unsuccessful candidate for Parliament who rebelled against Conservative Party tactics and advice. One month after World War II began he married redhaired, green-eyed Socialite Pamela Digby, daughter of the nth Baron Digby. He was then a subaltern in the exclusive the Queen's Own Hussars. In 1940 he finally got his seat in Parliament in an unopposed election. His father, whom he adores, sponsored him before the House, beamed like a sunflower shortly thereafter when his son's first child was christened Winston...
Churchill on India. Churchill rose from the House of Commons' front bench, placed his sheaf of quadruple-spaced notes before him. He was the same Winston Churchill who had lived a "gay and lordly" life as a subaltern in the 4th Hussars at Bangalore, India, in 1896. Age had broadened his beam and stolen his hair. It had not changed his view on the "patience and knowledge" of the Government of India. "It is patient," Churchill the Subaltern wrote nearly 50 years ago, "because, among other things, it knows that if the worst comes to the worst...
Brains still win, and the Germans had the best brains. A World War I subaltern in the Kaiser's Armies, who later became Hitler's personal thug, General Field Marshal Erwin Rommel has become one of the most competent soldiers of his time...