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High Standards. They also attract early bloomers: 63% of current freshmen at St. Paul's Macalester were in the upper 5% of their high school classes; 20 are National Merit Scholars. Missouri's West minster, where Winston Churchill made his "Iron Curtain" speech in 1946, boasts that not one of its recommended graduates has been turned down at a medical school of his choice for three decades...
With that request of Winston Spencer Churchill, taken from a wartime speech. ABC this week began a television series worthy of its subject and his words. Called Winston Churchill-The Valiant Years, its 26 half-hour segments will draw material from all six volumes of Church ill's World War II memoirs, using film clips made on both sides of battle to provide-if all episodes prove as excellent as the first-a graphic and unforgettable text in modern history...
After F. A. Lindemann, Winston Churchill's scientific adviser, attacked Sir Tizard in 1935, Tizard's secret decision to start a crash program to radar was at stake. In his tirades Tizard, Lindemann proposed Goldberg" alternatives to radar, had an "obsession for mines," Snow...
Here Snow adopted the role of storyteller and began to describe the two characters in his cast: Sir Henry Tizard, "the best scientific mind in our time that has ever applied itself to war," and F. A. Lindemenn, Lord Cherwell, who was Winston Ohurchill's "grey eminence" in scientific matters during the thirties and into...
Tizard went into the civil service, in 1934 was made head of the committee to propose measures for England's defense and thus became engaged in the "closed politics" of the scientific bureaucracy. On the other hand, Lindemann used his social connections and friendship with Winston Churchill to enter the "open politics" of Society and Parliament. He became an ally and adviser to Churchill during the period when he was the anti-government spokesman in the Commons...