Word: winstons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...train-three for ponies, three for people, three for baggage-for a trip to Florida, also took more than 100 trunks on a European voyage), owner of race horses (Parnassus, Level Lea); in Palm Beach, Fla. Son of Andrew Carnegie's partner Henry Phipps, and uncle of Pologician Winston Guest, John Phipps was a director of U.S. Steel Corp., W. R. Grace & Co., the Hanover Bank...
...means, ruled the trustees, the Art Institute of Chicago should accept the traveling show of Amateur Winston Churchill's paintings (TIME, Feb. 10). No, growled Director Daniel Catton Rich, 54, "we do not show the work of amateurs unless they have been passed by professional juries." Rich won the debate; the Churchill exhibit (which last month drew a record 147,255 spectators at Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art) was turned down. Having dealt decisively with the threat of being overruled, Dan Rich last week coolly resigned...
Just as Britain's Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd rose to tackle a question in the House of Commons, there were rafter-rattling cheers, and the Right Honorable Member for Woodford, Sir Winston Churchill, walked in through the great oak doors on his first visit to the House in four months. Pale and less cherubic than usual, the old parliamentarian made his way to a corner spot near the Treasury Bench, chatted with members from both sides, voted twice with the government on minor issues. Next day Churchill's chauffeur-driven Humber made a turn on Parliament Square, collided...
...long reading, Chancellors are allowed to sip something. Sir Stafford Cripps drank orange juice; Winston Churchill, not the most memorable of Chancellors, drank "an amber fluid...
Loyal Tribute. What of Wilson's own defects? Winston Churchill once wrote: "If Mr. Wilson had been either simply an idealist or a caucus politician, he might have succeeded. His attempt to run the two in double harness was the cause of his undoing." And Georges Clemenceau, the old French tiger whose claws helped to shred the Wilsonian dream, snarled: "He acted to the very best of his abilities in circumstances the origins of which had escaped him and whose ulterior developments lay beyond...