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...send his wife, as part of the newest installment of his official biography. He often waxed emotional: "Oh, my darling, do not write of 'friendship' to me-I love you more each month that passes and feel the need of you and your beauty." In the meantime, Winston Churchill wrote to Clemmie, would she please send "my hotwater bottle...
WHILE visiting Harry Truman in the closing months of his presidency, Winston Churchill spoke with blunt generosity: "The last time you and I sat across a conference table was at Potsdam. I must confess, sir, I held you in very low regard. I loathed your taking the place of Franklin Roosevelt. I misjudged you badly. Since that time, you, more than any other man, have saved Western civilization...
...Churchill was deceived at first, so were most of his contemporaries. Sir Winston, in fact, was some years ahead of other historians in his reevaluation. Truman was one of those public men whose reputations flourish only after years of retirement. His nondescript appearance, his shoot-from-the-hip partisanship, his taste for mediocre cronies who tainted the record with scandal -all the things that made him seem too small for the office-dwindled in importance with the passing decades. What loomed larger was a sense of the man's courage, a realization that he faced and made more great...
Papa was preceded, and followed, by other men of letters, including Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh, James Michener, Norman Mailer and James Dickey. Winston Churchill chose LIFE to publish his memoirs, and so did Harry S. Truman, the Duke of Windsor, Charles de Gaulle and Generals Dwight Eisenhower, Omar Bradley and Douglas MacArthur. It was with these memoirs that LIFE underlined its growing concern with the lessons of history...
...uses have changed-the dubious honor of driving the first car in Central Park went to one Winston Buzby in 1898, and the present infestation of buildings and ugly monuments was no part of Olmsted's plan. Today, the character of Central Park is stretched to its elastic limit. But it still survives, and Olmsted's words to his partner Vaux (who got dispirited sometimes) still speak for many New Yorkers: "I have none of your feelings of nauseousness about the park. There is no other place in the world that is as much home...