Word: winston
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...20th century's great military leaders. He may not have been a grand master of strategy or tactics; yet, better than any other commander of his time save George Marshall, Ike understood what is most important in modern warfare: organization and coordination. He was, as Winston Churchill noted, a great "creative, constructive and combining genius." It is doubtful that anyone else, again save Marshall, could have melded the competitive British and American forces?not to mention the Canadians, Free French, Poles, Czechs, Dutch and assorted others?into so formidable a fighting machine...
Unattached Feet. Churchill's style is less graceful and literary than that of his grandfather, whose own career was similarly launched in journalism. Young Winston writes more directly, though not as well.* He described hunger victims in Biafra: "Their bellies were as large as a pregnant woman's, their limbs like matchsticks, and some had testicles swollen to the size of a large grapefruit." His ear is attuned to the poignant quote, such as the plea of a starving boy who approached a priest and asked: "Father, what is happening to my body?" He lets unadorned facts convey...
When the young man introduces himself, people tend to chuckle at his little joke, then fumble sheepishly for words when they realize that he is, indeed, Winston Spencer Churchill II, grandson of Sir Winston. Despite such complications, Churchill has never felt constrained to change his name. It was largely because of his byline that his recent series of articles on the Nigerian war helped focus rising British discontent over Britain's role in the fighting, and sent Prime Minister Harold Wilson to Nigeria for a firsthand look last week. At 28, one of Britain's most promising young...
...covered it for the London Evening News. He also got a wire from his father, Randolph: SUGGEST WE DO JOINT RUSH BOOK. WHAT DO YOU SAY? Their book, The Six Day War, sold 170,000 copies in Britain, even though it was needlessly dull and Winston's chapters were only a shade more impressive and less preachy than his father's. Churchill also managed to be in Prague just before the Soviet invasion and in Chicago when police and protesters clashed...
Churchill speaks with understatement about his grandfather. Winston, he says, "suffered from being put down as Sir Randolph's boy. He had to carve out his own little niche. It wasn't so little." Churchill is certain his own niche also will be carved in politics. He ran for Parliament in 1967, lost narrowly, intends to try again. He, too, sees a certain compatibility between politics and journalism. "An M.P. has to be well informed," he says, "and journalism is one of the best ways of informing oneself." Journalism is also, as Winston Spencer Churchill well knows...