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...BROTHER STEVIE, by Eleanor Clymer (Holt, Rinehart & Winston; $3.50). A sentimental story of two poor New York City children who take a train trip to the country to visit a favorite teacher...
GlLGAMESH, by Bernarda Bryson (Holt, Rinehart & Winston; $4.95). A retelling of what is said to be the oldest legend known to man: the story of Gilgamesh, the great king of a Sumerian city, and his friend Enkidu, the half-beast, half-man originally created by the gods to destroy him. With its magnificent illustrations by the author, this book should appeal to all ages...
...keep the good life rolling in high gear, an annual income of $600,000 from trust funds totaling $30 million should be just the ticket. That sum is what Palm Beach-Long Island Socialite Winston Frederick Churchill Guest, 61, can count on, and it has gone a long way toward making him appear to be the man who has everything. Family? Hard to top a steel-rich Phipps mother and a British father who was a polo-playing first cousin to Winston Churchill. Wife? None other than the patrician blonde "Ceezee," the former Lucy Cochrane of Boston (TIME cover, July...
...hard to imagine that Winston Churchill was ever young. This second volume of Randolph Churchill's five-part biography of his father presents the apprentice statesman, exuberantly flexing the first sinews of power. The book spans only 14 years, opening in 1901 with a brash Churchill of 26 taking his seat on the Tory back bench, and closes on the figure of the First Lord of the Admiralty...
...with the Tories over tariffs-Churchill was a free trader-and bolted to the Liberal opposition. The following year, the Liberals were in power. They regarded their new convert with mixed feelings; no one knew whom Winnie would attack next-the Tories, his own Prime Minister or the King. "Winston thinks with his mouth," wrote Asquith testily...