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HALLMARK HALL OF FAME (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Program devoted to Sir Winston Churchill's artistic career narrated by Paul Scofield. Color...
Though the convention rules Wake Forest, it contributes only 5% of the liberal arts school's $5,500,000 operating budget; most of the rest comes from tuition and the tobacco-rich Reynolds Foundation, which in 1946 gave the college free land for its new campus near Winston-Salem. Hinting that Wake Forest might break its ties to the Baptists, Tribble warned that "one way or another we shall move into the future." As students strolled through the campus last week, they wore hand-lettered tags that read I CAN'T WAIT TO DISAFFILIATE...
...Finest Hours is an earnest, intelligent, generally uncritical documentary conceived as a tribute to Winston Churchill, who will be 90 on Nov. 30. Like Sir Winston's own work, and often in his own eloquent words, the film renders autobiography as history, submerging the private man in favor of the grand public figure who served his country, and his century, as First Lord of the Admiralty and Prime Minister through two world wars. "It was the nation and the race dwelling around the world that had the lion's heart," he declares. "I had the luck...
Died. Montagu Phippen Porch, 87, British soldier, archaeologist and colonial civil servant, who in 1914 at the age of 37 met Lady Randolph Churchill (then 60) at a ball in Rome, married her four years later to become stepfather to Britain's future Prime Minister, Sir Winston, his senior by almost three years; in Glastonbury, England...
Pall Mall First. According to Analyst John C. Maxwell Jr., who keeps the most reliable count of this secretive market, American Tobacco's king-size Pall Mall is still the fastest seller, closely followed by R. J. Reynolds' Winston. Unfiltered Camel and Lucky Strike, which vied for first place until the late 1950s, are steadily losing favor. In a comeback attempt, American is test-marketing Lucky Strikes with a tobacco-flavored filter, has sent out Luckies' veteran, quick-tongued radio auctioneer, "Speed" ("Sold American!") Riggs, to promote them in stores throughout the South...