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Christ & Churchill. As it is expected to in the script, the union turned down the offer, but it did so with such heat and haste as to banish any hope of a smooth settlement. Walter Reuther rather proudly paraphrased Winston Churchill to declare that "never have so few with so much offered so little to so many." Later Reuther managed to bring Christ to the bargaining table by asserting that He "would have given the most militant trade-union argument you ever heard." At week's end Reuther decided to increase pressure on the auto companies by delaying until...
Died. Vic Oliver, 66, British comedian and former husband (1936-45) of Winston Churchill's daughter Sarah, a music hall star who doubled up U.S. and British audiences with his hilarious piano and violin spoofs of long-haired recitals; of a heart attack; in Johannesburg, South Africa...
Both his parents were Scottish, and his father, Major Valentine Fleming, D.S.O., was a Conservative Member of Parliament killed in battle in 1916 on the Somme River. The major's obituary in the Times was written by his close friend, Winston Churchill. Ian attended Eton and Sandhurst, Britain's West Point, ended up as a correspondent for Reuters news agency in Berlin and Moscow. Switching to high finance, Fleming worked six years as a stockbroker, even though "I never could figure out what a sixty-fourth of a point was." In the next six years of war, Fleming...
...TWENTIETH CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). A day in the life of Rhodes Scholar Winston J. Churchill Jr. (no kin) from North Wales, Pa., one of the many students who have studied, over the years, at Oxford University under the scholarship program set up before his death in 1902 by the South African financier-statesman Cecil Rhodes. Repeat...
...peer of the realm and a notorious London gangster. The Sunday Mirror and its weekday sister, the Daily Mirror, which repeated the story, named no names, describing the peer only as "a household word." But upon returning from a vacation, Lord Boothby, 64, onetime parliamentary private secretary to Winston Churchill, looked into the Mirrors and in effect screamed: That's me they're talking about...