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Both Landau and Gordon will go to Berkley for the NCAA tournament June 13-14 at the University of California. There Landau will meet the best in collegiate hurdling, including Elias Gilbert of Winston-Salem, and Glenn Davis of Ohio State, the Olympic 400-meter hurdles champion. Gilbert last week broke the world's record in the 440-yard dash...
...following is the first of a series of articles taken from the Winston Pooh lectures on Myth and Mystery in Modern American Prose delivered last year at Wheat Forest College in Illinois. Mr. Pooh was internationally recognized for his three volume treatise on The Totem-Pole in American Indian Culture...
...reporting on the Casablanca Conference in a letter to his son John, wrote: "The day [De Gaulle] arrived he thought he was Joan of Arc and the following day he insisted he was Georges Clemenceau." A series of equally bitter arguments over British policy in Syria and Madagascar led Winston Churchill to complain: "Of all the crosses I have borne since 1940 none is so heavy as the Cross of Lorraine...
...Westminster College, Missouri, where Sir Winston Churchill in 1946 focused the thoughts and fears of the world into a memorable phrase -"Iron Curtain" -the Old Warrior's cousin, Irish Critic Sir Shane Leslie, passed on a few newsy nubbles about his famed relative: "You know, his father never thought that Winston had the brains for college. Winston got his education as a subaltern in the campaigns of the India frontier. He took with him to India three books, Macaulay's Essays, Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire and a work by the Irish historian...
...daubing the character and career of Lord Randolph's stupendous son Winston, Rowse makes clear that the father's tragic fall from power served more than anything else to spur the son to glory. Among Sir Winston's faults Rowse cites his lack of "some intuitive tactile sense to tell him what others were thinking and (especially) feeling." Rowse attributes this partly to Sir Winston's breeding: the "very strength of the two natures mixed in him, the self-willed English aristocrat and the equally self-willed primitive American" combined to make him greater...