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...book's most celebrated contributor is Winston Cliurchill (a clever politician-journalist-historian), who in one variant of history did not die of prison fever during the Boer War, but went on to become a heroic brandy drinker and Prime Minister. With double irony in his title, Churchill speculates on what might have happened in If Lee Had Not Won the Battle of Gettysburg. After Lee's victory, Churchill notes, the Confederate general's brilliant stroke of freeing the slaves cut away the moral underpinning of the Union cause. Could Lee actually have forced such a measure...
Died. Bernard Marmaduke Fitzalan-Howard, 16th Duke of Norfolk, 66; in his sleep; on his estate in Sussex, England. As Earl Marshal of England, the duke choreographed royal weddings and funerals with such clockwork precision that he complained that Winston Churchill's state funeral was "two minutes late." Asked once by a newsman how he felt about work, the duke replied, "It has never appealed...
...Guinness is rendering unto Caesar that which is Caesar's, and doing it cautiously, for his February 1976 television performance with Genevieve Bujold in George Bernard Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra. The show's sponsor, Hallmark Cards, is still aching from the karate chop rendered unto Winston Churchill by Richard Burton on the eve of his starring role in The Gathering Storm. Shaw wrote that Caesar "bought men with words," but Sir Alec, talking about the play, sounded like a translation from Latin: "Anything that is reasonably civilized is likely to have an underlying wit." Somewhat more...
...this Taffy writing in the New York Times to lambaste the greatest Englishman of his age, Winston Churchill? Was Welsh Actor Richard Burton trying a backhanded publicity stunt for the TV documentary The Gathering Storm, which starred Burton as a stringy, humorless Winnie and was aired to celebrate the centenary of Churchill's birth? Or was he playing protector of Fiancee Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia, whose father, Prince Paul, handed over his country to the Nazis in 1941 and was publicly vilified by Churchill...
Whatever the reason, the actor's outburst that Churchill was a despicable coward and an overriding dictator, in fact, "a medieval bandit king," met with more puzzlement than outrage in England. Said Churchill's grandson Winston: "When I had lunch with Burton recently, he almost thought he was Churchill." As for Burton, he issued a rambling apology, if not a retraction...