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Died. Adolf Johannes de la Rey, 91, South African cattle farmer and provincial politician, who in 1899, as a Boer War guerrilla, captured a British journalist named Winston S. Churchill, a misfortune that Churchill subsequently observed "was to lay the foundations of my later life," when his escape within four weeks made him an instant national hero and prime parliamentary candidate back home; of a stroke; near Johannesburg...
...summer residence in 1854 to please his wife Eugénie. The palace closed when the dynasty fell, but it reopened as a hotel in 1894 and has been one of the world's finest ever since. La specialité de la maison is pamper le guest. Winston Churchill became a regular only after the hotel at its own expense installed a custom-built, old-fashioned bathtub complete with bronze legs, just like the one in his London town house. Says Palais General Manager Roger Boltz: "As long as there are people who want to live in a select...
...first New Zealander ever named to a major office in the Church of England, Sullivan served-as an Army chaplain during World War II. As Archdeacon of London, he read the Biblical lesson at the state funeral of Sir Winston Churchill. Sullivan was surprised by his promotion. "Does this mean he's naming me?" he asked his wife when Wilson's letter of appointment came in the mail this month...
Jewels & Diaries. As Hitler's armies first spill across the Continent, Nicolson despairs for Britain, certain that the war cannot be won. Opposed to Chamberlain's appeasement, he describes one of the Prime Minister's speeches during which "Winston Churchill sat hunched beside him looking like the Chinese god of plenty suffering from acute indigestion." Even when Churchill becomes Prime Minister, Britain continues to suffer defeat after defeat. But, like the nation, Nicolson's spirits are somehow altered by the leadership of the man whom he admires more than anyone in the world. More than once...
...exile. His lone service to the crown was as Governor-General of the Bahamas during World War II. Afterward, he privately applied for a job as roving ambassador to the U.S., whose ways he clearly finds congenial. He once remarked that he envied his old friend Winston Churchill for his half-quotient of American blood. He is now working on a biography of George III, who reigned during the American Revolution -a "deplorable event" that, the duke says, the book is really about...