HEALTH OF CHURCHILL
“Getting On Slowly”
(Rec. 8 p.m.) LONDON. November 19.
Sir Winston Churchill, Britain’s 85-year-old statesman and war leader, in bed with a back injury, was reported today to be “getting on slowly.” Lady Churchill told reporters this outside their London West End home a couple of hours after his doctors had said Sir Winston Churchill “did not have a very good night. “The pain of his injury is less,” they added after the usual morning visit. The doctors’ bulletin was issued after Britain’s elder statesman—who will be 86 in 11 days—had been visited again this morning by Lord Moran, his personal physician, and Professor Herbert Seddon, an orthopaedic specialist. After seeing him for 90 minutes. Lord Moran said: “Everything is all right.” But the official bulletin said later: “Sir Winston Churchill did not have a very good night, but the pain of his injury is less.” Mrs Mary Soames, Sir Winston Churchill’s daughter, w.fe of the British Minister of Agriculture, said later after visiting her father: “There is no cause for worry.”
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29367, 21 November 1960, Page 15
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