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...Speaker began to administer to all members the oath of allegiance to the Queen, there was an outburst of cheers from the members' benches and applause from the visitors' gallery as a rosy, stout figure entered the chamber and took his place just below the gangway. Sir Winston Churchill-who once led all the rest-sat watching quietly as his former government colleagues trooped up ahead of him to take the oath. But when it came the turn of Labor's front bench, Clem Attlee made a gracious gesture. He crossed to Churchill, shook Sir Winston...
Washington's stone gothic Foundry Methodist Church* is a 141-year-old landmark of the national capital. Abraham Lincoln and seven other Presidents (John Quincy Adams, James Madison, Rutherford B. Hayes, James K. Polk, William McKinley, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Truman) occasionally worshiped there; Franklin Roosevelt and Sir Winston Churchill went there on Christmas Day in 1941 to pray. Last week Foundry's pastor for the past 31 years, silver-thatched Dr. Frederick Brown Harris, preached his farewell sermon. At the compulsory retirement age of 72, well-loved Dr. Harris was leaving Foundry to give more time...
...eyed and fumbling for a misplaced cigar, to learn that his plurality, while down almost 3,000 from 1951, was still a robust 15,808. "We wish you a long and happy life," said his defeated Laborite opponent. "I've already had that," grunted So-year-old Sir Winston Churchill...
...needed new roads, 131,000 rooms of new housing, a new water system for 247 communities. Total investment by Rome and the regional government in eight years: about $1.5 billion. Tourist business is booming (helped among other things by the visit to ancient Syracuse of that eminent painter, Sir Winston Churchill). Gross income went up by some 20% last year, as against 8% for overall Italy. Sicily's own version of land reform has somewhat eased - though by no means solved - the crush of poverty...
...Trumans showed off the living quarters of their comfortable home, oil portraits of the three members of the family and a painting by Sir Winston Churchill, presented to Harry Truman as a gift. The former President also sat down at Margaret's piano, wondering if it was in tune (it did not sound as if it was), and played the waltz he had taught her when she was first learning to play the piano. Then, as an encore, he played Paderewski's Minuet...