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...great man had written in My Early Life: "I loved my mother dearly -but at a distance." A painful distance, according to Randolph Churchill, 55, chronicling the early life of Sir Winston Churchill in a biography now being serialized by London's Sunday Telegraph. "Winston's schooldays were the only unhappy part of his life," writes Randolph about his father. "The neglect and lack of interest shown by his parents were remarkable." Winny constantly begged "Mummy and Papa" to visit him at school, but "Lord Randolph was a busy politician; Lady Randolph was caught up in the whirl...
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Married. Serena Russell, 22, debutante daughter of former. Vogue Publisher Edwin F. Russell and Lady Sarah Spencer-Churchill (Winston's cousin); and R. Stephen Salant Jr., 25, Manhattan commodity broker; in a tense ceremony at which the bride's parents tried to smile away the fact that Mom was just in from Reno, where she'd gone to sue Dad for divorce, and Dad had just gone to court to prevent Mom from taking three other daughters out of the state; in Southampton...
...play God across the board, however," he adds, "and have always served Catholic organizations well." His reward: one box of cigars from Winston Churchill, 600 thank-you plaques, 200 City of Hope "torches," honorary membership in 188 synagogues and in the Society of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, to say nothing of the nourishment from three or four thousand kosher dinners...
...Publishers are so competitive that they commonly do not divulge sales; McGraw-Hill, however, reports that it has sold 100,000 such books-an indication that they are moving well throughout the field. Other successful textbooks have been put out by Scott Foresman, Macmillan, Follett, Chandler, and Holt, Rinehart & Winston...