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There were also other and more spectacular abnormalities. One day in the fall of '43 gunboats glided up the Charles River and took positions in the Harvard bend. Motorized police barred off Cambridge streets and thousands of uniformed figures appeared in the Yard. Ever smiling, ever cigar-smoking Winston Churchill was to receive a Doctor of Laws degree in a traditional ceremony at Sanders Theatre. Those who saw and heard the British Prime Minister speak cheered wildly for the man regarded as the greatest figure of the times. After he left in the afternoon both gunboats and police slipped quietly...
...HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING PEOPLES, VOL. II, THE NEW WORLD, by Winston S. Churchill (433 pp.; Dodd, Mead; $6), rolls with Churchillian eloquence over those troubled years between the first great Tudors. including Bloody Mary (the last Roman Catholic Queen of England), and the bloodless Revolution of 1688 (which established Britain in a truce of class, power and tradition). Churchill presents, with the terse clarity of one of his own state papers, an England emerging from the age of the first Elizabeth, when most Englishmen were sick of blood spilled over theological differences. They were to find that theology...
Kirkland, which uses a T formation, brings unusual depth into the traditionally close championship contest. This season the Deacons have won six games and tied one, while scoring a total of 110 points against their opponents' 18. A strong forward wall, led by ends Dick Nye and Gus Winston, is the main reason opponents scored only three touchdowns this year...
Kirkland played a passing game, scoring two touchdowns in the first quarter. The first was made by Glenn Sisler, who also kicked the extra point, while the second was scored by a pass to Pete Fredericks. Other tallies were made by Gus Winston, who made two touchdowns in the second and third quarters, while Walt Rosche and Bob Derrow each scored one. Winston and Fredericks scored the four extra points...
Painter Sutherland has also jumped over the wall toward realism in his portraits, including his controversial Winston Churchill (TIME, Dec. 13, 1954). An even more direct approach, inspired by the drab realities of postwar Britain, is the young, vigorous "Kitchen Sink" school with painters such as Jack Smith, 28, and Edward Middleditch, 33, taking for their subjects the groceries on a kitchen table, teapots, stoves and even...