Word: winstons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most chic, it also cited several newcomers to the derby. Luxuriating in her No. 1 spot for the fifth year in a row was Mrs. William S. Paley, wife of CBS's board chairman, closely trailed by two other perennials, the Duchess of Windsor and supersocial Mrs. Winston Guest. Soon after them came the year's big surprise: Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, making her first appearance in the best-dressed list and more than outdistancing her unmentioned sister, Princess Margaret (tied for No. 9 last year). Among other women saluted for their "distinguished taste in dress...
Since then, as before, TIME's Man of the Year has often symbolized powerful human effort in the age-old will to freedom. In 1949 Winston Churchill was chosen Man of the Half Century with these words: "That a free world survived in 1950 . . . was due in large measure to his exertions." Last year, as the battle flared in Central Europe, the Man of the Year was a nameless, single-minded Hungarian Freedom Fighter...
...onetime lady-in-waiting at the Czarist court, whom he found in New Jersey, Stuart once got 8,000 precious feet of royal family life, including the Czar swimming in the buff. Sometimes unusual film gets scrapped. Example: a shot of Charlie Chaplin doing a little jig for visiting Winston Churchill in Hollywood in 1929. Twentieth Century Producer Burton ("Bud") Benjamin reluctantly threw it out of his hour-long show on Churchill (TIME, Oct. 28) because "it had no place in our story...
Cover Charge. In Winston-Salem.N.C., arrested for hitting a man with an ax. Leonard ("Jack") Spease, 39, said: "I thought he would duck...
...Another chief of government whose illness, originally described as "need of a complete rest." was later disclosed to be a stroke: Winston Churchill. In March 1955, Churchill admitted to the House of Commons what few people had known: that two years earlier he had been paralyzed down the left side of his body...