People: The Lowdown

Winston Churchill's advice to Conservatives leaving for the U.S.: "When you get there you have to forget this Socialist Government of Great Britain. It is the government of Great Britain, and you do not criticize it. But when you get back, you make up for lost time." Author-Orator Churchill will also have something to say in the twelfth edition of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, due in November—60 entries on his debut (Franklin Roosevelt's total will rise from 12 to 34).

Philosopher George Santayana's judgment, at 84, of the human race: "There are no great men today."

Well-turned Aquactress Esther Williams put on a well-cut...

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