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Driving for the peripatetic TIME correspondents guarantees a variety of experiences. Frank Allen, driver in the London bureau, remembers, for example, a recent trip to Chartwell, home of Sir Winston Churchill. Allen had tucked a copy of the Prime Minister's book, The Gathering Storm, under his arm on the offchance of getting it autographed. As he waited, an aide noticed the book, said to Allen. "The old man's in a bad mood today. I don't think you have much of a chance." However, as Allen and his passengers were about to leave, Sir Winston...
FILTER-TIP cigarette competition will get hotter when R. J. Reynolds brings out its new king-size Winston at just 2? a pack above the price for its Camels. Most filter tips sell for 6? to 9? more than regular cigarettes...
Soberer heads pointed out that by-elections in safe seats are not perfect indicators. Their counsel: wait at least until 1955, when the question of Sir Winston Churchill's retirement will surely have been settled, a successor will have taken over, and the Conservative government will have a four-year record of accomplishment to campaign...
...from a local ghost renter) to assure success at the opening. As any obeah-minded Bahamian could have predicted, this precaution worked; the ghost, one Richard Crotch in life, worked silently and invisibly to bring the necessary luck. Such corporeal visitors as Prince and Princess Alexis Obolensky, Mrs. Winston Guest, Sir Victor Sassoon, Mrs. Bernard Gimbel and Metropolitan Opera Tenor Jussi Bjoerling materialized from amphibians that made 40 nights in and out. Other guests, before and since: Danny Kaye, the Countess of Leicester, Brenda Frazier Kelly. All applauded what the ghost and Wenner-Gren had wrought. Much bucked...
...named Jim Moser, he started a weekly show of his own called One Out of Seven. Webb (who got $8 extra pay) was the cast: he dramatized the big news story of the week by standing before three microphones and doing his best to imitate Franklin Roosevelt, Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill...