WINSTON CHURCHILL (433 pp.)Robert Lewis TaylorDoubleday ($4.50).
To biographical mountain climbers, the figure of Winston Churchill rears up as formidably as Mt. Everest. One reason is that the last word on Churchill is usually by Churchill. Wisely hugging the foothills of anecdote, Robert Lewis Taylor, the New Yorker profiler, has put together a crisp, readable "informal study of greatness." Unable to wangle a single interview with the "old man in a hurry," he nonetheless brings the old showman onstage for every star turn of his dramatic life.
There is Churchill, "the naughtiest little boy in the whole world," whose instructors could only keep...
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