Word: winstons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wigglesworth Hall and Springfield, Ohio;; Alfred J. Kahn '63, of Wigglesworth Hall and Houston, Tex.; Stephen A. Keese '63, of Stoughton Hall and Chattanooga, Tenn.; Phillip L. Stotter '63, of Greenough Hall and South River, N.J.; David W. Walker '63, of Thayer Hall and Canaan, N.Y.; and Ronald H. Winston '63, of Matthews Hall and Scarsdale...
...annual business outside of the big holidays. He went after such writers as Ogden Nash and Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, brought in such artists as Saul Steinberg, Grandma Moses, Edward Hopper, Andrew Wyeth, sponsored touring Hallmark art exhibits across the U.S. He was told time and again that Sir Winston Churchill would never agree to have his paintings on greeting cards. Churchill was delighted, and Hallmark sold 4.5 million Churchill cards the very first year, about half the number of Hallmark's alltime bestseller-a cart loaded with pansies that is suitable for almost every occasion...
...need not have turned out that way. After World War II, Britain had the chance, even the open invitation of the weakened nations across the Channel, to join and assume the leadership of a new united Europe. Britain refused, though Winston Churchill's eloquence rang in the halls of the Council of Europe on behalf of the ideal. Britain's explanation for staying out has always been the theory of the three overlapping circles of British policy. One circle is Britain and its Commonwealth; another is Britain and the U.S.; a third, Britain and Europe. Of these three...
...year of awakening for the West, a year when the United States and its allies finally realized that the war with the Axis powers had been succeeded almost immediately by a more subtle struggle with Soviet Russia. Signs of this awakerning included Winston Churchill's phrase "the Iron Curtain," first used in his speech at Fulton, Missouri late in 1946, and the President's response to the Communist challenge in Greece and and Turkey, the Truman Doctrine...
...Douglas MacArthur's, that the Allies had to win the European war first before going all-out in the Pacific-a turn of events that galled the spectacular MacArthur, who was Chief of Staff when Marshall was a lieutenant colonel. When F.D.R. succumbed to the prolonged arguments of Winston Churchill, who insisted on attacking the "soft underbelly of Europe," it was Marshall who got him to change his mind in favor of an assault across the English Channel. Marshall's fondest hope was that he could break out of the deskbound frustration of the staff planner to command...