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...third edition of London's Sunday Telegraph safely tucked into bed, its bone-weary parent and editor in chief climbed into his secondhand Morris station wagon at 1 a.m. and headed for his Buckinghamshire country estate. Behind the Hon. William Michael Berry, 50, second son of the first Viscount Camrose, stretched 20 weeks of late Saturday nights -and the special satisfaction of having succeeded when his competitors were smugly certain that he would fail. In less than five months, the Sunday Telegraph, London's first new Sunday paper in 42 years,* has clearly established its capacity to survive...
Winston Churchill - The Valiant Years (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.). Tying the Knot; the final campaign in Germany. Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery offers his recollections...
Double was suggested by a trick played by British intelligence in World War II, when it prevailed upon a smalltime character actor to impersonate Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery during a "secret tour" of North Africa-to convince the Germans that an Allied invasion would be launched from that area. Danny starts out as a U.S. private lent to the British army "to show them how to open Spam." Being on a fat-free, salt-free, low-calorie, highprotein, low-cholesterol diet, Danny skips meals, and passes the time impersonating "Satchmo," Churchill and Adolf Hitler. Intelligence catches his act, notes...
...Italian Youth Ball, the seasons were elegantly personified in a maypole pageant by Janet Neff (summer), wife of Investment Broker Joseph A. Neff; Lydia Melhado (autumn), wife of Investment Broker Frederick Melhado; and Viscountess de Rosière (winter), Ohio-born wife of French-born Jewelry Sales Executive Viscount Paul de Rosière. Gentle spring: evergreen Actress Joan Fontaine. Commented Cosmetics Entrepreneur Elizabeth Arden from her ringside table at the Plaza Hotel benefit: "We had all forgotten that charity can be such...
...some respects this book is a worthy sequel to Colonel Robert Baden-Powell's celebrated work, Scouting for Boys, but this is not necessarily a slight of its author. Bernard Law Montgomery, Field Marshal the Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, 73, would readily agree that Boy Scout ideals are what the world needs more of. It is disarming and somewhat startling to find a celebrated soldier, whatever the specific merits of his wartime role, writing without an ounce of embarrassment in praise of prudence, justice, temperance, fortitude, honor, courage and truthfulness. His aim is to define the na ture...