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...your narrative of the retirement of Sir Winston Churchill, you state [April 18] that "next morning several hundred were still waiting and guessing" in Downing Street. As the Cabinet assembled, I took a count. There were only 47 people in Downing Street (including myself) as Mr. Harold Macmillan entered No. 10. I did not take a count when Sir Winston drove off to the palace, but I should guess 500, not "more than 2,000 gawpers." As one of the gawpers, I suggest that Sir Winston was wearing not a frock coat but a morning coat...
...task of selecting Man of the Year is so simple; it's Sir Winston for your Jan. 2, 1956 cover. Who else...
...Vacationing in Sicily, and waiting for unseasonable rains and chilly winds to end so that he could venture out with his paintbrushes and easel, Britain's retired Prime Minister. Sir Winston Churchill, holed up in his hotel suite, busied himself with revisions of his forthcoming History of the English-Speaking Peoples, which he wrote before World War II, found little time to edit till now. He made a sensa tional dinner appearance one evening in a red siren suit and slippers to match, jollied the hotel into swallowing its "Sunny Sicily" slogans and turning on its central heating...
While such tributes were being sounded in a chamber still vibrant with his personality. Winston Churchill himself was busy entertaining the Downing Street staff at tea, snapping quips at parlormaids and secretaries alike, and preparing to go home to Kent...
Climb to Power. When his friend Winston Churchill came to power, Macmillan, at 46, at last got his first post, No. 2 in the Ministry of Supply. Two years later, he was in North Africa as Churchill's Minister Resident and political troubleshooter. There he helped negotiate the settlement between France's Generals de Gaulle and Giraud, and became a good friend of Lieut. General Dwight Eisenhower. With his "American connection," and acquaintanceships begun in North Africa, he feels a confident ease about relations with Washington. "We have been through it all together before," says Macmillan...