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...victory, and needs no somber reiteration of them. Better, perhaps, to be able to smile now when told that the British collected assagais, ancestral sabers, golf clubs, and Indian Mutiny rifles, and chuckle when reminded that only yesterday the Germans were hatching elaborate plans for kidnapping the Duke of Windsor out of Portugal. For beneath the fun, Fleming makes clear how narrow was the margin of victory...
...Poetic license; the Duke of Windsor is two years her senior...
...first week as Canada's new Tory Prime Minister, John Diefenbaker moved on a grand stage. Only two days after he was sworn into office, Diefenbaker flew to London for the Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference. He had an audience with the Queen, and dinner at Windsor Castle; he spent a weekend at Chequers, and got a request from Madame Tussaud's that he sit for a wax statue. Prime Minister Diefenbaker flashed a happy grin, confided to a friend: "I'm enjoying...
Bowling down to Windsor Castle with Queen Elizabeth a few hours after he had exhorted Britain's Automobile Association that "anything is worth trying to reduce Britain's horrible casualty figure," Prince Philip tried to stop his elegant green Lagonda convertible when a Morris slowed for a turn, failed to brake fast enough, clonked into the tiny car. The Morris pilot hopped out in a huff, "thinking 'Some stupid clod's hit me,' " melted immediately when Philip cheerfully took the blame. Damage to Queen, Prince and commoner: none. To Philip's prestige as president...
...Earl*of Connecticut's Roger Sherman (opposite), once a shoemaker, later a lawyer, and the only founding father to sign four historic documents of American independence: the Association of 1774, the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, the Constitution. Earl sat the awkward, clearheaded patriot in a Windsor chair as foursquare and unyielding as himself, threw a harsh, searching light on the stubby workingman's hands, which seem to regret having nothing to do, on the brow square-cut as a headstone, on the weary, wise button eyes, plow nose, sickle mouth, Gibraltar jaw-and painted...