CHURCHILL AND “IKE” ESCAPE INJURY
Recd. 10 p.m. New York, March 9. Mr. Churchill and General Eisenhower narrowly escaped injury at Williamsburg, Virginia, to-day, when two white horses drawing an ancient coach in which they were riding, frightened by photographers’ flash-bulbs, bucked, plunged and threatened to run away. The horses were quietened by a negro coechnian. The incident caused th? can-, cellation of a schedule horse-drawn tour of this colonial capital of old Virginia. Throughout the hectic scene "of confusion and oommotior when women were screaming, ifol’eemen shouting, and hundreds milliner about th? coach, Mr. Churchill calmly puffed away at a long black cigar.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 90, Issue 57, 11 March 1946, Page 5
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104CHURCHILL AND “IKE” ESCAPE INJURY Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 90, Issue 57, 11 March 1946, Page 5
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