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Standouts for Kirkland in early season practice have been Pete Fredericks, Norm Gahn, Bob Darrow, Gus Winston, and Glenn Sisler in the backfield, with Greg Leonardos, George Rogentine, Connell Murray, and Dave Busse looking strong in the 185-pound line...
...bankrupt them. A town planner was found who was ready to prove that the plan was unworkable. The university's ruling Hebdomadal Council met in deepest secrecy and significantly failed to endorse the new scheme. From his Christ Church study overlooking the meadow, the venerable Lord Cherwell, Sir Winston Churchill's top wartime brain-truster and now adviser for Britain's atomic-energy program, issued a statement solemnly urging that a Royal Commission be appointed to study the matter. After such a body had deliberated a few years, the menace of the Suez Canal crisis would undoubtedly...
...Nobodies may become Somebodies if they have the right stuff in them. The very early Churchills were so obscure that Author Rowse dispatches five centuries of them in eight pages. One such was apparently a plain 12th century blacksmith, whose presence in the family tree the present Sir Winston has found "disquieting." The blacksmith's son married a widow a cut above him, and by dint of a few generations of such nimble marriages, the Churchills became gentry, landed but impoverished. The clan's private golden age began in the mid-17th century with Sir Winston Churchill...
Next, there was Sir Winston's daughter Arabella who caught the eye of "the most unguarded ogler of his time," James, Duke of York, later James II, while she was lying flat on the turf after a riding spill. Timid, pale and thin, she was shortly installed as the duke's mistress in a mansion in St. James Square. A model of discreet industrious domesticity, she bore him several bastards, one of whom was ancestor of the illustrious Spanish Dukes of Alba. Helped by Arabella's prestige, her brothers did well too: George became a very unpopular...
...Queen Surrounded. In portraying John, Author Rowse takes his cues and many a quote from the latter-day Sir Winston's Blenheim prose palace, the six-volume, 2,561-page Marlborough, His Life and Times. John was slim and handsome, brave as a lion, as full of twists as a corkscrew. He was ambitious beyond belief, but never lost his temper or learned to spell. Through sheer brilliance he worked himself up to the rank of general. But it was not until Queen Anne came to the throne that John Churchill had the chance to astonish Europe. And even...