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Official aide-de-camp to Prime Minister Winston Churchill at Quebec: Subaltern Mary Churchill, of the Auxiliary Territorial Service.

At a press conference in Quebec, charming, 20-year-old Mary told reporters she was quartered in the Citadel, on the same floor as her father. "I run errands and make myself useful whenever I can," said she. "Papa mostly works, and very late. Occasionally we see a movie, and last night we saw Disney's South American film, Saludos Amigos." Asked What the P. M. calls his aide-de-camp, she replied: "He just says, 'Mary, where are you?' "

Youngest of Winston's four surviving children,* Mary Churchill...

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