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...Mike Wallace Interview, Night Beat] nurture the hope that they may one day see the victim turn on the inquisitor and cut him down to size. Last week it happened. In Manhattan, WABD's Night Beat filled its "hot seat" with Journalist Randolph Churchill, only son of Sir Winston. He listened politely to his introduction as a man who has been labeled "outspoken, ill-tempered and fearless." But when TV Torquemada John Wingate brought up the "unfortunate incident involving the arrest of your sister Sarah in California" (TIME, Jan. 27), Churchill more than lived up to his billing...
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...that evening, Churchill's private secretary read a roomful of correspondents a 26-word bulletin signed by both doctors: Sir Winston had pneumonia and pleurisy. It was the fourth attack of pneumonia in Sir Winston's 83 years, and, said Dr. Roberts, "everything is troublesome to a man of his age." The world waited edgily for the next communiqu...
...came from Lady Churchill, who beamed: "He is very well, thank you," as she took a turn in the villa garden Friday morning. "Very definite improvement," confirmed the day's bulletin, said to have been edited by the great man himself. At week's end. Sir Winston was smoking two cigars a day, "handling a considerable volume of correspondence," and threatening to go out painting. "You'll see," he growled at a member of his household. "I'll be out with brushes before any of you think I will...
Every major cigarette maker did the same. R. J. Reynolds changed the filter on its Winston brand until in 1957 it let through 3.8 milligrams of nicotine, 22 milligrams of tar v. 3 milligrams of nicotine, 22 milligrams of tar for unfiltered king-size Chesterfield. The percentages are similar for Marlboro, Viceroy, Tareyton, Parliament and the rest of the popular filters. Net effect: "The public has paid premium prices of 2? to 6? per pack . . . for 'protection' they did not receive...