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...Winston Churchill, 85, half-American but the most English of Englishmen, again seemed indestructible. He took a spill in the bedroom of his London home, broke a small bone in his back. Doctors consigned him to bed for a few weeks, said that the injury was not serious. Another bulletin was issued by his daughter, Mary Soames, who reported: "Sir Winston is bored." But the medics were clearly worried by his slow mending and "disturbed" nights...
Even through the war years, Sir Winston Churchill always made his annual appearance at his old school of Harrow to be acclaimed as its most honored living Old Boy. His only absence since 1940 came four years ago, when he was downed by a bad cold. Some 650 young Harrovians last week serenaded him as is the custom, once again brought a proud smile to Sir Winston's face as they sang the Latin words of May Fortune Stay with the House, including the line, "Churchill's name shall win again...
...Limited to 24 living persons. Among the present members: ex-Prime Ministers Winston Churchill and Clement Attlee, Poet T. S. Eliot...
...will tell you that his Cabinet will be selected without regard to color or creed." Asked what he thought about Lodge's "pledge," Nixon said just that. As Lodge headed South on a campaign swing, he ran into angry questions from G.O.P. leaders in Virginia, finally on reaching Winston-Salem, N.C. told newsmen: "I cannot pledge anything...
...rural Michigan mail carrier, Postmaster General Arthur E. Summerfield, 61, blossomed as co-author of a book that he once wished he could lay hands upon: U.S. Mail: The Story of the United States Postal Service (Holt, Rinehart & Winston; $5). In Manhattan for an author's luncheon, Summerfield admitted that his favorite game is Post Office, proved that he is still an addressee at heart. Said he wryly: "It's difficult to explain why a piece of mail-a letter, a postcard-has not been delivered in due time. But often the delay is because...