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...Winston Churchill's 80th birthday celebration and the critical storm over Graham Sutherland's Churchill portrait were obviously stories to be reported. Honor Balfour, TIME'S parliamentary specialist, got the assignment. Reporters drew lots for passes to the ceremony in crowded Westminster Hall, and Correspondent Balfour was lucky enough to get one. Nearly everyone got a glimpse of the Sutherland portrait in the hall, but few had a close view. Reporter Balfour previously had arranged for a private viewing through the good offices of her friend Mrs. Sutherland, the artist's wife. All of which contributed...
Beneath the mighty oak roof that Richard II built, on the spot where Charles I was condemned to the scaffold and Cromwell proclaimed Lord Protector, where Britain's dead kings are mourned and its new ones feted, Sir Winston Churchill stood last week and received his country's heartfelt tributes on his 80th birthday. Before him, vast Westminster Hall (hard by the House of Commons) was packed with top-hatted peers and tiaraed peeresses, members of Parliament and their wives, from closest allies to such old antagonists as Aneurin Bevan...
...Your Duty." But next day, Sir Winston appeared in Commons in a much different mood. Laborite Emanuel Shinwell apologized for bringing up unpleasant subjects so soon ("Quite right. Do your duty," said Churchill), but Shinwell wanted details of the telegram Churchill had declared he sent to Field Marshal Montgomery in 1945 ordering Monty to stack surrendered German arms so that German troops might use them if necessary against the advancing Russians. Churchill was serious, pale and penitent. Shaking his head remorsefully, he confessed that when he made the statement (TIME, Dec. 6), he was "under the rooted impression" that...
...Stupid Blunder." Attlee seemed content to accept this apology. But more vociferous Labor voices were not: they were ready to turn the previous day's hail into a farewell. "An unbelievably stupid blunder," cried the Laborite Daily Herald. "It leaves Sir Winston no leg to stand on as a negotiator for peace." Other Opposition papers talked of Churchill's "failing powers." At week's end the attack took on real political weight. Ex-Foreign Secretary Herbert Morrison, a moderate who ranks second only to Attlee in the Labor hierarchy, declared bluntly: "If the faux...
...live here because I love Cuba-this does not imply a dislike for anyplace else-and because here I can get privacy when I write." But his life in Cuba is not quiet. Guests at the finca are apt to include friends from the wealthy sporting set, say Winston Guest or Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt; pals from Hollywood, such as Gary Cooper or Ava Gardner; Spanish grandees, soldiers, sailors, Cuban politicians, prizefighters, barkeeps, painters and even fellow authors. It is open house for U.S. Air Force and Navy men, old Loyalists from the Spanish civil...