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...left thighbone he broke in a fall in the bedroom of his Monte Carlo hotel nearly eight weeks ago was neatly knitted, and there was no trace of the bronchitis that had worried doctors during his convalescence. So, after 54 days in London's Middlesex Hospital, Sir Winston Churchill, 87, went home at last. Carried to a waiting ambulance in a sedan chair, the couchant old lion, chomping his usual Havana cigar and giving a victorious V-sign to a cheering curbside crowd of 1,000, was whisked away to his Hyde Park Gate home for a champagne toast...
...where all the meat was, and the others got mad and they killed him. That was the end of that Russian business." Byrd heads back down a bridle path, the Shoreham's sandy-colored brick looming above the trees. "When I was Gover nor they asked me if Winston Churchill could come down and visit. He wanted to see the battlefields. The only trouble was that when he got there, they told me he drank a quart of brandy a day. It was strict Prohibition, and I never had al lowed any in the mansion. I called...
...guests, including U.S. Ambassador James Gavin. "It was a quiet, small, very friendly, almost a family affair," reported Mrs. Gavin. Flying on across the channel for more of the same, Ike lunched at Buckingham Palace with Queen Elizabeth, paid a 15-minute visit to another wartime companion, recuperating Sir Winston Churchill, 87, who broke out the brandy (but, Ike noted, failed to fire up one of his famous cigars). Said Ike: "He looks like the same old Winston, alert and interested in things...
...avid reader of TIME and a sometime handler of show dogs, I'm very curious as to the breed of dog pictured with Mrs. Winston Guest on the cover of TIME, July 20. It looks a bit like a Saluki. JULIA L. HUNT New Haven, Conn. > Mrs. Guest's dog, Sultan, is indeed a smooth-haired Saluki, Egypt's royal dog and perhaps the oldest known domesticated breed...
Down to the bowling alleys in his London constituency of Streathan to meet the mums and local blokes went Tory Stalwart Duncan Sandys, 54, once the husband of Winston Churchill's daughter Diana, but now showing off his French-born bride of three months, Marie-Claire, 33. His silk-sheathed wife knocked down eight at a blow. Then she looked on with pride as Prime Minister Macmillan's Commonwealth Secretary doffed his coat and on his very first roll bowled a tenpin strike...