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Leaning heavily on a silver-knobbed walking stick, Sir Winston Churchill, 86, clumped slowly into the House of Commons for the first time since he broke a bone in his back last November. Churchill's entrance was met with Commons' warmest welcoming growl of "Hear-hear-hear-hear," enthusiastically led by the member whose speech he had interrupted, Opposition Leader Hugh Gaitskell. Beaming, Sir Winston plumped himself down on the government front bench for half an hour, but in keeping with the self-imposed silence he has maintained in Parliament since his resignation as Prime Minister...
...Twining, who had logged 44 years of active service when he resigned the chairmanship of the Joint Chiefs of Staff last September, took a post with one of the U.S.'s largest book publishing houses. He will be vice chairman of the board of directors of Holt, Rinehart & Winston, Inc. But retiring Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson, who has had mountains of surplus corn on his mind through his eight hectic years in office, elected to linger in familiar pastures. Last week he became a director of Corn Products Co., world's largest processor of that troublesome...
...Winston Churchill: The Valiant Years (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.). "The Ravens Remain," the story of the London blitz...
...Winston Churchill: The Valiant Years (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.). The fifth episode of the notable series during which the Prime Minister makes his famous "We shall fight on the beaches" speech...
Trumpets from the Steep, by Diana Cooper. The final volume of Lady Diana's autobiography shows again her delightful ability to make real people sound like Waugh characters, a gift all the more impressive when one understands that "Duckling," for instance, is Winston Churchill, and "Wormwood" is Charles de Gaulle...