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Some other would-be social bridges have been campaigning, with varying degrees of zeal, for roles as certified Carter hostesses. One of them is Vicki Bagley, wife of an heir to the Reynolds tobacco fortune. Vicki, 33, and Husband Smith Bagley, 41, moved to Washington from Winston-Salem, N.C., almost two years ago. They paid $650,000 for a big house in Georgetown, added a tennis court and other amenities, and eventually carved themselves a niche as big Carter boosters. It clicked. Says Vicki: "Six months after we were here, we were associated with Carter and all the dinnerparty invitations...
Britain's Enoch Powell is a Cantabrigian classicist who can speak eleven languages-and enrage listeners in any of them. Winston Churchill once described him as "that young madman who has been telling me how many divisions I will need to recapture India...
...April 1955, an enfeebled Winston Churchill stepped aside. Eden had been waiting for this moment. But he was Prime Minister for only 21 months; ironically, a foreign adventure brought him down...
...published last spring. Through a television series in which he recounted his life and career, Eden became a new presence to a generation of Britons who knew none of the world events he shaped and suffered through. History's verdict on Eden is hard to judge. Winston Churchill, in 1938, described him as "the one fresh figure of first magnitude arising out of the generation that was ravaged by the war." It may be one of the great disappointments of postwar Britain that this fresh figure fulfilled so few of his generation's high expectations...
...words have surprisingly old-fashioned genealogies. People were "mugged" in provincial Lincolnshire as early as 1866, as in "I gave him a sound mugging, he was so chappy." A Mrs. P. Snowden, traveling in Bolshevik Russia, went "behind the Iron Curtain at last" in 1920, a generation before Winston Churchill gave the term currency in a speech at the end of World...