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Married. Edwina Sandys, 22, daughter of Britain's Commonwealth Relation Secretary Duncan Sandys and granddaughter of Sir Winston Churchill; and Piers Dixon, 31, son of Sir Pierson Dixon, British Ambassador to France and former U.N. delegate; both for the first time; in a diplomat-studded London ceremony missed by convalescent Sir Winston (who was visited by the newlyweds immediately after the reception...
Dunce's Revenge. Nobody fits Goertzel's findings better than Winston Church ill, who despised his tutor-governess, was sent off at seven to St. James's School, where at nine he had a physical breakdown from trying to buck the system. Churchill was Harrow's bottom scholar (and spent years mastering English while others went on to Greek and Latin). He twice failed Sandhurst's entrance exams, barely passed on his third...
Churchill typifies the son fulfilling "a parental daydream." When Lord Randolph Churchill's political career collapsed, 13-year-old Winston vowed: "My father was Chancellor of the Exchequer, and I mean to be the same one day." The lad burned to help his father "in every fight on every march." Said Winston at his father's death in 1895: "The dunce of the family will take revenge on the whole pack of curs and traitors...
Music for a Winter Night (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.). "The Sounds of Christmas," the first of three holiday specials (with Mindy Carson and Florence Henderson), temporarily replaces Winston Churchill: The Valiant Years...
...reader can be sure that when she tells of making a frantic telephone call to "Clemmie," it will be Mrs. Winston Churchill who picks up the receiver, while "Duckling" is Winston himself, and "Wormwood" is none other than General Charles de Gaulle.* "Duff," of course, is Lady Diana's husband, who died as Lord Norwich in 1954 but who, during the period of the book, was plain Mr. Alfred Duff Cooper, successively army lieutenant, Minister of Information, civilian defense chief in Southeast Asia, liaison man in North Africa and, finally, Ambassador to France, writing the Treaty of Dunkirk...