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...vast old palace, where Winston Churchill was born, was floodlit for the occasion, and along the terraces, braziers glowed to light up the path of strolling couples or warm them when the night turned chill. Some 1,100 guests ate in the grand saloon and danced the twist in the long library. Henry Ford's daughters, Charlotte and Anne, were there, as was Richard Pershing, grandson of the rigid old soldier...
...Heath's declaration last year was a hopeful echo of Winston Churchill's ringing pleas for European unity in the 1940s-but also a bitter reminder that even Churchill had never brought his people to share his vision...
...fortnight's vacation in Monte Carlo, Sir Winston Churchill, 87, divided his time between painting and gambling, sun and sightseeing. Mornings he sat before his canvas in a ninth-floor studio of the Hôtel de Paris with a superb view of the Riviera coast and the Monaco yacht basin. Afternoons, he drove up in the hills of the Alpes Maritimes. Nights, Sir Winston sat for hours at a roulette table in the Monte Carlo Casino, as oblivious of the gawping tourists as an old but uncaged lion. Walking painfully, but refusing any helping hand, Churchill invariably carried...
This deeply satisfying routine was upset one morning last week. Getting out of bed at 6 a.m., Winston Churchill slipped and fell, breaking his left thighbone. Considering Churchill's age, the accident was alarming...
...monument to the healing properties of brandy and tobacco. His disasters started as early as birth, when his U.S.-born mother, Lady Randolph Churchill, seven months pregnant, felt labor pains in the middle of a ball at Blenheim Palace. Attendants were unable to rush her to a bedroom, and Winston made a spectacular entrance in a nearby cloakroom...