Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Churchill & Gandhi - And Wally?


Wally, my friend and colleague at the University of Denver Bookstore (see photograph above), is a member of the Churchill Society, an organization devoted to the life and writings of Winston Churchill.  Wally also belongs to the  local  chapter's book club, which is currently reading the book "Churchill and Gandhi."   As far as I can tell, Churchill and Gandhi met in South Africa many years ago, when they were both young hotheads, and evidently got into a big fistfight - something about the "Gem of the British Empire" versus the "throwing off of the English yoke." They were never on very good terms after that, and the rest, as they say, is history.  In any case, the next item on the book club's list is "Churchill Cooks Italian," or something like that. Can't wait to see those recipes!

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