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...where did the Conservative Party get the idea that he is too old to do the job?" Amid applause, tributes and cheers, Sir Winston, flushed pink with his mental and physical gymnastics and looking amazingly boyish, bowed courteously. Next he made off for his parliamentary constituency of 30 years, Woodford, to make a speech that teased some more. "Thirty years is a long time," said he, spacing his words for impact, "but I have every hope it will continue longer still." He-and the Woodford constituents as well-knew that he could continue in Parliament after stepping down...
...ELLEN WOODFORD...
Blunt & Plain. Addressing his own constituents at Woodford, Essex, Sir Winston was in the midst of a routine speech defending German rearmament and reminding them that he was the first to warn that the West needed Germany on its side against Russian aggression. "Even before the war had ended," he went on, "and while the Germans were surrendering by hundreds of thousands, I telegraphed to Lord Montgomery, directing him to be careful in collecting the German arms, to stack them so that they could easily be issued again to the German soldiers whom we should have to work with...
General Federation of Women's Clubs (11 million members); Mrs. Zaio Woodford Schroeder, a practicing lawyer from Grosse Pointe, Mich, and the federation's international-affairs chairman; Mrs. Gilbert F. Loebs of Waterville, Me., wife of Colby College professor and chairman of the federation's consumer committee; and Mrs. Car E. Swanbeck of Huron, Ohio, a grandmother and Republican candidate for the Ohio legislature...
Both scientists and laymen had ideas, and all week long they aired them to their hearts' content. "In my opinion, even though I am a scientist." wrote Chemist A. L. Bacharach, "fissionable (an Americanism, I believe), is not admissible, though fissile is." Nonsense, cried a gentleman from Churchfields. Woodford, "it is unquestionable that 'fissionable' is objectionable to the impressionable; but to the knowledgeable it is unexceptionable." Added someone from Harrow, Middlesex: "Fissionable is fashionable, and surely reasonably admissible. Fissible is risible...