CHURCHILL’S 79th BIRTHDAY

Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27211, 1 December 1953, Page 11

CHURCHILL’S 79th BIRTHDAY

“Business As Usual” (Bee. 10 p.m.) LONDON. Nov. 30. It will be “business as usual” for Sir Winston Churchill today, his seventy-ninth birthday, with a Cabinet .meeting this morning, at which it is (expected that Russia’s offer to attend Five conference 136 disThis afternoon, Sir Winston Churchill may cross from Downing Street to the Bouse of Commons. 150 yards away, to receive an all-party welcome and posibly a few questions from private members. In the evening, he will be host at Downing Street to 100 guests whose names are still a closely-guarded secret. Sir Winston Churchill spent a busy-week-end at his country home. Chequers, making last-minute preparations for the Bermuda talks. His attack of nervous fatique caused by overwork soon after the Coronation has left its mark on him, but all his friends agree that for a man of his age he has made an astonishing recovery.

He has no diet worries, and enjoys his meals. He still smokes cigars although he has never smoked as heavily as most people believe. He enjoys a drink, and has often remarked: “I’ve taken more out of drink than it has taken out of me.” One of Sir Winston Churchill’s hundreds of birthday presents will be a “mirror.” enabling him to see himself as others see him. Forty men and women who know him well—from President Eisenhower to former flfetective-Inspector Walter Thompson. Sir Winston Churchill’s former bodyguard—have written their impressions of the sides of his character and career they know best.