Word: winstons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mauve-and-gold plate propped up in the Bois de Boulogne drawing room of the Duchess of Windsor, 76, was the first of a run of 1,000 Coalport china plates commemorating her late husband. Inscribed on its back is an elegiac quotation from Sir Winston Churchill: "In this prince there were discerned qualities of courage, of simplicity, of sympathy, and, above all, of sincerity; qualities rare and precious which might have made his reign glorious in the annals of this ancient monarchy...
When Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill signed the original eight-point Atlantic Charter* aboard the U.S. cruiser Augusta off the Newfoundland coast in August 1941, Hitler's tanks had seized North Africa, and Japan was preparing its surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. Kissinger's new charter will be written-if it appears at all-in a less dangerous but infinitely more slippery time of prosperity and détente...
Going public with Portnoy turned Roth into a hot property and brought him the awareness that "being famous was like being a box of Oxydol." Our Gang, The Breast and now The Great American Novel (Holt, Rinehart & Winston; $8.95) definitely have extra-literary dimensions. They are also packaging and merchandising problems. Our Gang, which began with ten pages of devastatingly accurate satire of Nixonian newspeak, quickly slid into labored collegiate humor. Grossly padded-including too many blank end papers and repetitive title pages-the book became a $5.95 hardback steppingstone to a profitable publishing venture. Ditto The Breast, whose...
...PALC leaders, Randall Robinson and James Winston, hit upon an ingenious strategy. The Portuguese, regimes they said, were propped by the investment of American-based oli companies, who provided needed foreign exchange and in some cases made direct payments to the Portuguese military. Several companies were involved, but Harvard owned a large block of stock in one of them, Gulf Oil, and it was here that PALL decided to use some judo...
...Profits. Elson also describes the courtship that landed Winston Churchill's memoirs in LIFE (and the New York Times). It began with the purchase of some Churchill paintings as well as his secret wartime speeches to Parliament (which Luce found boring). Getting rights to the great man's memoirs cost LIFE $750,000, not to mention picking up the check for Churchill's frequent vacations in Marrakech. Was it worth it? LIFE's circulation department found that the memoirs had a "devastating effect" on newsstand sales. But, says Elson, "Luce took a more elevated view...