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...occupied Norway the symbol for defiance of Hitler's Nazis was not Winston Churchill's stubby-fingered V for victory, but an H crossed by the figure 7. Painted on walls, tramped out in the snow, scratched on the sides of Nazi troop trains, chalked on Gestapo command cars, perpetually erased, perpetually reappearing, the omnipresent H7 was a perennial reminder to the people of Norway and to their occupiers that the true sovereign of their indomitable spirit was their exiled King Haakon...
...Japanese had inflicted at Pearl Harbor that morning. When his broadside against McCarthy provoked the Senator to counterattack, President Eisenhower pointedly described Murrow as his friend. Carl Sandburg calls him a poet. He is a longtime friend-at-the-bar (Scotch, a little water, no ice) of Sir Winston Churchill. Interviewer Murrow is often more celebrated than the celebrities on Person to Person, sometimes must work to bridge the gap. When Rocky Graziano appeared, he urged the prizefighter to call him Ed. Replied Graziano on the air: "Oh no, Mr. Murrow, I can't do that...
Medicine's most widespread and stubborn enemy, the common cold, has been forced into a small but significant retreat. Epidemiologist Winston H. Price, 33, of Johns Hopkins University, last week announced development of a vaccine-proved 80% effective in initial tests-to combat a major virus that may cause up to a third of all common colds...
North Carolina. In a token appeasement of the Federal Courts, Charlotte, Greensboro and Winston-Salem this semester admitted a total of 13 carefully screened Negroes to white schools. The lone Negro pupil at Charlotte's Harding High School withdrew last week in the face of continuing harassment. The Greensboro and Winston-Salem pioneers were still holding...
Reduced to agreement by a "most persuasive" letter from Amateur Painter Dwight D. Eisenhower, Amateur Painter Winston Churchill will permit 30 of his paintings (landscapes, seascapes, still lifes, interiors of famed houses) to be shown publicly early next year in a tour of U.S. cities for his first one-man show after 35 years at his favorite pastime...