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...have not gone long unnoticed. The working press has helped prod the Administration into swift action in some cases, e.g., the resignation of former Secretary of the Air Force Harold Talbott. In that way the correspondents have proved a blessing in disguise to the Republican Administration, though as Sir Winston Churchill remarked, when he applied the phrase to the British Labor victory in 1945, "the disguise is perfect...
SAVROLA (241 pp.) - Winston S. Churchill-Random House...
Legend Persists. Even more wittily, the novelist himself has supported the publisher's proud claim that this new edition carries a "new foreword by the author" in a neat 76 words. Thus at 81, Winston Churchill shows himself more garrulous by 29 words than in the original note in which the young officer of the IVth (Queen's Own) Hussars was moved to submit the book "with considerable trepidation to the judgement or clemency of the public.'' The aged Knight of the Garter adds for the current edition: "The intervening fifty-five years have somewhat dulled...
...When Winston Churchill's novel was published, an American of the same name had greater fame.* Few now read the other Winston Churchill's Richard Carvel or The Crisis, good books though they are, and their author said of them what the English Churchill might have said of his Savrola: "I wrote for pleasure or adventure...
...Rosemary De Camp), who does not particularly want one. The show is nearly as slapstick as the My Hero series, but considerably funnier, and Bob has an excellent foil for his own comedy routines in his girl Friday (Anne B. Davis), a half-pint comedienne known as Schultzie. Sponsor Winston Cigarettes has paid the bills for the past two years and has an option for three and a half years more. Says Bob: "A lot of other sponsors want to get in too. Show business is like the stock market-when you're hot, everyone wants a part...