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...Among them: Novelist Evelyn Waugh, Pamela Churchill, ex-daughter-in-law of Sir Winston, Murder-Trial Lawyer John Maude...
...living today in any part of the world, do you admire the most?" The most admired, by a wide margin: Dwight D. Eisenhower. Winner Eisenhower (who also was top man in 1952) had as many votes as the combined total of the next two men on the list-Sir Winston Churchill and General Douglas MacArthur. Other high-ranking also-rans: Harry S. Truman, Adlai E. Stevenson, Bishop Fulton J. Sheen, Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch, Pope Pius XII and former President Herbert Hoover. A newcomer among the top ten: Wisconsin's U.S. Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, who ranked seventh...
...again with the ague of disintegration-the Sudan broke away, all colonial Africa throbbed with the presence or possibility of violence and shouts for independence. The Queen was Britain's Woman of the Year; Britain's Man was clearly its great, aging, political chieftain, newly knighted Sir Winston Churchill...
...Egyptian paper had printed approvingly one of his articles on evacuating British troops from Suez. Bevan got to his feet full of facts and figures about anti-government articles Churchill had written for foreign papers during the '30s. He went on to quote a blustery article Sir Winston had written 40 years ago in defense of his father, Lord Randolph Churchill. "This right honorable gentleman," interrupted Sir Winston, "has hitherto been trying to hide behind me. Now I gather he is endeavoring to hide behind my father." The duel came to a sudden end when Sir Winston...
Triumph and Tragedy, by Winston Churchill. Sixth and last volume of the best of all World War II accounts (TIME...