Word: winstons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...aggressive "We can do it better" campaign. This display of vigor, reinforced by the unexpectedly effective performance of Labor Leader Hugh Gaitskell, upset Tory plans for a quiet election and turned the three-week campaign into the toughest-talking election battle since Labor's 1945 victory over Winston Churchill. Said Labor's "Nye" Sevan: "I have seen the squint in [Macmillan's] soul." Macmillan himself, harking back to an old description of Hugh Gaitskell as "a desiccated calculating machine," gleefully cracked: "I still think he is rather desiccated, but his reputation as a calculator is gone with...
...Bowman Gray, 52, was named chairman and chief executive of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (Camels, Winston Salem), largest U.S. tobacco manufacturer (1958 sales: $1,146,559,000). He succeeds John Clarke Whitaker, 68, who was named to the newly created post of honorary chairman. Gray started as a salesman in 1930, became sales manager in 1952, executive vice president in 1955 and president in 1957. It was during Gray's presidency that Reynolds wrested the lead in U.S. tobacco sales from American Tobacco Co. Succeeding Gray as president is F. G. ("Bill") Carter, 47, former vice president...
...third time since early last year, Actress Sarah Churchill, 44, was hauled in by the law for public drunkenness. This time, in London, she got off with a $5.60 fine, after a constable testified that Sir Winston's daughter "appeared to be trying to hold a sort of political meeting" all by herself in a local snack...
...Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few." Thus, 19 years ago, Winston Churchill hailed the pilots of the R.A.F.'s Spitfires and Hurricanes, which day after nightmare day in the summer and autumn of 1940 rose up to defy the waves of German bombers boring in on Britain. And ever since the war, on the third Sunday in September, Britain has commemorated The Few with an R.A.F. flypast over London. Traditionally, one Spitfire and one Hurricane have led the way for a formation of the modern jets that have...
...midst of his aides, watching maneuvers. Wingate saluted and gave the astounded general a severe talking-to (eventually he won his appointment). Time and again later, Wingate was to go over the heads of his field commanders and appeal successfully to the topmost brass, right up to Prime Minister Winston Churchill...