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...horrified to "learn" that Nehru "could barely speak Hindi." Nehru could speak Hindi as barely as Winston Churchill could speak English...
Died. William Gallacher, 83, former president of Britain's small (some 35,-000 members) Communist Party and longtime Member of Parliament (1935-50), a loud, irascible Scotsman who thrived on baiting other speakers, in 1947 caused an enraged Winston Churchill to yell "Shut up, Moscow," to which Gallacher retaliated "Voice of Wall Street," eventually lost his seat to a Laborite; of cancer; in Paisley, Scotland...
Married. Lord Charles George William Colin Spencer-Churchill, 25, London insurance broker, tall (6 ft. 6 in.) handsome second son of Sir Winston's cousin the tenth Duke of Marlborough; and Texas Debutante Gillian Spreckels Fuller, 18, daughter of Fort Worth Oilman Andrew Fuller, and great-granddaughter of California Sugar King John D. Spreckels; in London, one year after they met at the Ascot races...
...Pennell's hand at the wrist. One prisoner fashioned a tourniquet from a shoestring and a stick to keep him from bleeding to death, while another gingerly picked up the severed hand and wrapped it in a handkerchief. Pennell was rushed to North Carolina Baptist Hospital in Winston-Salem. Packed in ice, the hand rode the ambulance with...
IVORY HAMMER 2: THE YEAR AT SOTHEBY'S. 256 pages. Holt, Rinehart & Winston. $12.50. For art lovers who like to look at the price tags too, this book is just the ticket. The annual report of Sotheby's, Britain's venerable auction house, which has been a British institution for years, has graduated into a profusely illustrated volume worthy of deposit on any drawing-room table. Ivory Hammer 2 is the second annual report to be published in the U.S. It reprises the 1963-64 season, during which Sotheby's knocked down an unprecedented $37 million...