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...neither his marriage nor his distinguished Royal Navy record was enough to save him. Hounded by the press and vilified by the public, he lasted only two months after the outbreak of the war before he penned a short and sad note to the First Lord of the Admiralty, Winston Churchill, offering to resign in the interests "of the great Service to which I have devoted my life." "In all the circumstances," replied Churchill, "you are right in your decision...
Into the slightly tarnished Casino of Monte Carlo one evening shuffled Sir Winston Churchill, a sometime gambler spending a quiet vacation (on doctors' orders) in Monaco. At Sir Winston's side was Shipping Tycoon Aristotle Socrates Onassis, owner of 42% of the Casino's stock. Churchill bought a modest stack of light blue ($1) chips. After two hours devoted to the impassive scrutiny of a spinning roulette wheel and the cards in another game called trente et quarante, the two departed. Churchill was an estimated $35 richer, Onassis $15 poorer. Two afternoons later Sir Winston was back...
Last fall the commission decided the time had come to persuade the tobacco companies to agree to their own ceasefire. For one thing, filter pitches were losing their appeal because conflicting claims were nullifying one another. And there was the example of Winston, consistently the bestselling filter, which had never used the health puff. One of the early entrants in the low-tar derby, Kent switched its main theme to "filters best for the flavor you like...
...considering sending air and naval units to help the French, provided that 1) France promised to give the Indo-Chinese states their independence, and 2) Britain and other U.S. allies would support the U.S. The British answer, says Eden, was no-unless the impending Geneva peace talks failed. Sir Winston Churchill "summed up the position by saying that what we were being asked to do was to assist in misleading Congress into approving a military operation, which would in itself be ineffective, and might well bring the world to the verge of a major...
...fled to London in 1933, taking with him a 7-ft. by 6-ft. candelabrum whose gracefully weaving branches support a group of Biblical characters, a piece that eventually won him acclaim in England and the chance to do powerful busts of such notables as Arturo Toscanini and Winston Churchill; in London...