Word: winstone
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...short-order hamburger or a fairly auhentic banana split. What with its dazzling array of drugs, chewing gum, model airplanes and racks full of Playboy, the delights of Le Drugstore are inexhaustible. But now there is a new- and equally exotic- rendezvous: an English pub, inevitably called the Sir Winston Churchill, right there on the Champs Elysees, a stone's throw from the Arc de Triomphe...
There's no mistaking it. The name is engraved on the facade, there's a huge framed picture of Sir Winston inside (Lady Churchill permitted use of the name), and a Watney's ale truck draws up regularly to replenish the draft. Inside, the effect is super-lush, with deep red plush seats, red-globed lamps, lots of traditional dark wood and highly polished brass fixtures. "Of course it's not a real pub. It's a parody of a pub for the French bourgeoisie," says a bearded Bait called Slavik, sipping his Old Forester...
...when the U.S. won a few minor medals at the Olympics, but things quickly went from better to bad. Last year Americans failed to beat Europeans in a single important race. There was no reason to expect anything different this year-until a lanky desperado named William Winston Kidd went hunting in the Alps...
...Winston Churchill...
...invited both old Ford friends and the jet-set society in which his daughters had been circulating since they moved from Grosse Pointe to live with their mother in New York. The crowd ranged from Mrs. Mary Lasker to Baby Jane Holzer, included such luminaries as Ceezee and Winston Guest, the Winston Churchills III, Truman Capote, the Raymond Loewys, and the Douglas Fairbankses...