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The Numbers refer to numbers which are given in the publication Finest Hour.)
1. Who was "F.E."?
F.E. Smith, later Lord Birkenhead
7. Who was "The Prof"?
Frederick A. Lindemann, Oxford professor of Physics
13. Who was the "the boneless wonder"?
Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald
19. To whom did WSC reply, when accused of being drunk, "And you are very ugly, but tomorrow I'll be sober"?
Bess Braddock, MP
25. Who said, "There will be a tremendous literature about you. There will be many,many volumes." To which WSC replied, "I know. I wrote about 40 myself." Lord Beaverbrook (1957)
31. Churchill and F.E. Smith founded The Other Club in 1911. What was its primary purpose?
To dine
37. What rumor did Brendan Bracken encourage?
That he was WSC's illegitimate son
43. Who was WSC's Best Man at his wedding?
Lord Hugh Cecil
49. What was Lord Beaverbrook's full name?
Max Aitken
55. Whose first impression of WSC was, "an arrogant young pup"?
W.L. Mackenzie King (later Canadian PM)
61. Who said, "Winston's written an enormous book all about himself and called it The World Crisis"?
Sir Samuel Hoare
67. Who sculpted the famous statue of Winston Churchill in Parliament Square?
73. What famous person entertained the Churchills aboard his yacht in the late fifties and early sixties?
Aristotle Onassis
79. "He has the gift of compressing the largest number of words into the smallest amount of thought" was said by WSC about whom? Ramsay MacDonald (1933)
85. Who was Churchill's first secretary, who worked off and on for him for 30 years?
Eddie Marsh (commencing in 1906)
91. Who did WSC describe as having been "transported in a sealed truck like a plague bacillus from Switzerland into Russia"?
97. Who was Churchill's private secretary from 1952 until WSC's death?
Anthony Montague Brown
103. What very special guest attended Sir Winston's resignation dinner in 1955 at 10 Downing Street?
H.M. the Queen attended
109. To whom was WSC referring when he said (in 1935) "He is a great actor who can tug at our heartstrings as surely as he compels our laughter." Charles Chaplin
115. Who was the Churchill's head gardener at Chartwell?
Victor Vincent
121. The author of Fringes of Power was Churchill's private secretary for many years. Who was he?
Sir John Colville
127. Five minutes after WSC left his WWI dug-out to meet the XI Corps Commander it was blown up, killing one person. Who was the Commander?
General Sir Richard Haking
133. Who aided in Churchill's escape from the Boers?
Mr. Dewsnap
139. Winston Churchill vies in popularity with what other wax figure at Madame Tussaud's?
145. What American statesman and friend of Churchill's also realized the duplicity of Stalin in the 40's?
W. Averell Harriman
151. Who said to F.E. Smith in 1911 that he would give five pounds to dine with "that fellow Churchill"?
Max Aitkin (Lord Beaverbrook)
157. To whom was Churchill referring when he said "He had the art of backing uneasily into the limelight"?
Lawrence of Arabia
163. With whom did Churchill found The Other Club?
Lawrence of Arabia
169. Whom did Churchill replace as Prime Minister in 1940?
Neville Chamberlain
175. What American statesman was Churchill with when he heard the news that Pearl Harbor had been bombed?
W. Averell Harriman
181. To what was W.H. Thompson (detective) referring when he described Churchill as being "too impetuous and . . . took chances"?
Churchill's flying ability
187. With whom did Churchill like to speak because of the "feeling of getting nearer my father"?
Lord Rosebery
191. What important branch of the Navy did Churchill found?
The Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm
193. Sir Winston S. Churchill is often confused with this American author one of whose novels is entitled The Crisis. American novelist Winston Churchill
199. Name the title, author and date of the first biography of Churchill. Winston Spencer Churchill by A. MacCallum Scott in 1905
205. Who, in The World Crisis, was "the only man on either side who could lose the War in an afternoon"?
Lord Jellicoe
211. Winston was referring to whom when he wrote to Clementine "the little man was dressed up to the nines in the Balmoral tartan with dagger and jabot?
Duke of Windsor
217. Who was WSC's "dearest and most intimate friend" during his first twenty years?
Mrs. Everest
223. To which portraitist did Churchill say "You can make a roaring lion stand still to be photographed."?
Yousuf Karsh
229. Which monarch was WSC referring to when he said, "will shine in history as the bravest and best beloved of all the sovereigns..."?
King Edward VIII (Duke of Windsor)
235. To whom was WSC referring when he said, "I have never seen a human being who more perfectly represented the modern concept of a robot." Vyacheslav Molotov
241. Who said that Churchill's theories of war were "so harebrained that it would be humourous if the lives of men were things to joke about?"
Max Aitken
247. What position was given to the Duke of Windsor to keep him out of enemy hands?
Governor of the Bahamas
253. Who were the Australian Prime Ministers during World War II?
Robert Menzies and John Curtin
259. What great admirer of Sir Winston provided him with his favorite Champagne?
Mme Odette Pol-Roger
265. Who was Churchill's physician whose diaries caused a sensation?
Lord Moran
271. To whom did WSC say that his father died on the 24th of January - and so would he?
Churchill predicted the date of his death to Sir John Colville
277. With which U.S. President did Churchill play poker?
Harry Truman
283. Churchill is often quoted describing who as "a modest man with much to be modest about"?
Clement Attlee
289. Who said of WSC: "He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle"?
John F. Kennedy
295. Which Prime Minister appointed WSC as Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1924?
Stanley Baldwin
301. "[He] is the only bull who carries his china shop with him," was said by Churchill about whom?
John Foster Dulles
307. Who was the artist who sculpted the statue of Churchill located on Woodford Green, Essex?
David McFall
313. Who wrote that Churchill could read "the right decision, upon faulty logic, and against all the best advice"?
Sir John Colville
319. How did Sir Winston and the American author Winston Churchill agree to distinguish each other's writings"?
Per their agreement, WSC would byline his books "Winston S. Churchill," and the American author just "Winston Churchill"
325. "The only man on either side who could lose the War in an afternoon," was a statement made by Churchill about which officer?
Lord Jellicoe
331. What was Churchill's good friend and advisor Professor Lindemann's title?
Lord Cherwell
337. Churchill referred to whom when he said of all the crosses he had to bear, "the heaviest of all was the Cross of Lorraine"?
Charles deGaulle
343. First Sea Lord Prince Louis Battenberg's son later became First Sea Lord under Churchill. Who was he?
Louis Mountbatten
349. Who said, "I am sure we can get along if he [Churchill] doesn't try to give me too much soft soap"?
Harry Truman
355. Who said of Churchill in 1939, after publication of Step by Step: "It must be a melancholy satisfaction to see how right you were." Clement Attlee
361. What was Lord Cherwell the "Prof" professor of, and where?
Experimental Philosophy at Oxford University
367.When war was declared in 1914, Churchill was dining at the Carlton Hotel. Who, as Martin Gilbert discovered, was cooking vegetables there at the time?
Ho Chi Minh
373. To which Prime Minister was WSC referring when he said, "If any grub is fed on Royal Jelly it turns into a Queen Bee"?
Clement Attlee
379. To which WWII American general was Churchill related?
MacArthur through an American ancestor, John Farnsworth
385. Which of Churchill's many admirers was honored when WSC named one of his race horses after her?
Mme Odette Pol-Roger
391. Which English pacifist said, "God put us on an island and Winston has given us a navy. It would be absurd to neglect these advantages"?
The pacifist Lytton Strachey
397. Pamela Lytton neé Plowden was an early love of Winston's with whom he corresponded for many years. About how many?
403. What was Prof. Lindemann's official government position during WW2 when he was also Churchill's scientific advisor?
409. Who said to Churchill in 1942, "It is fun to be in the same decade with you"?
415. Which world leader said, "Churchill is a great man . . . He thinks in terms not only of those little islands . . . but of Western civilization"?
421. In 1916 WSC compared a British commander to a competent and confident, but distanced surgeon who would not reproach himself if the patient died. Who was he? Sir Douglas Haig
427. Who was Churchill's Foreign Minister in the early '50's?
Sir Anthony Eden
433. What well-known person's assistance did WSC seek to help bring order to the Middle East in 1921? Lawrence of Arabia
439. After visiting Britain in 1942, who received a note from the Prime Minister, saying: "you certainly have left golden footsteps behind you"?
Eleanor Roosevelt
445. In 1942 Churchill met with the Chairman of the United States War Industries Board. Name this man, who was a life-long friend. Bernard Baruch
451. In the Thirties, WSC appointed what Canadian codename "Intrepid" to head the British Security Coordination Service in New York?
William Stephenson
457. Who was Churchill's Parliamentary Private secretary in 1926 and later Minister of Food in Churchill's 1940 coalition government?
Robert Boothby
463. With whom did Churchill lunch most Tuesdays for the duration of World War II?
King George VI
469. "Impossible to be present for the first performance. Will attend the second - if there is one," is a famous reply to which playwright's invitation? WSC replied to George Bernard Shaw's invitation which said "...come and bring a friend - if you have one."
475. In 1958 what famous leader requested that an exhibition of WSC's paintings be arranged in the United States?
President Eisenhower requested an exhibition in the U.S.
481. Whose sketching in watercolors inspired Winston to try it for himself and started his painting hobby?
His sister-in-law, Lady Gwendeline Bertie ("Goonie") invited him to try a few brush strokes
487. Brendan Bracken was assigned what post by WSC during WW2?
Minister of Information
493. The Evening Standard was owned by what great friend of WSC's?
Lord Beaverbrook
499. "He seemed to me to embody the life-hope of the British nation, the grand old British race that had done so much for men, and yet had some more to give ..." was said by Churchill about whom?
Anthony Eden
505. Who described Churchill as "a great voice rolling round the world"?
Sir Robert Menzies
511. Lord Beaverbrook (Max Aitken) and Churchill were long-time friends. What year did they first meet?
517. Who did Churchill say was a diplomat of Bismarkian proportions when WSC was involved in German reunification negotiations?
Konrad Adenauer
523. To whom was WSC referring when he used the expression "whipped jackal"?
529. Who encouraged Churchill to meet face-to-face with Roosevelt after the Battle of Britain?
Harry Hopkins
535. Who said, "Churchill is one of the few men I have met who... give me the impression of genius. Shaw is another. It is amusing to know that each thinks the other is much overrated!"?
Cartoonist David Low
541. The architect Churchill hired when Chartwell was rebuilt wrote a book, True Remembrances, in which it is mentioned. Who was the author of the 1954 work?
Philip Tilden
547. What as the relationship between Edward H. Marsh (1872-1953) and WSC?
Churchill's private secretary from 1905-29 and a lifelong friend
553. What was the name of the Churchill's illustrious cook, who wrote a book entitled Recipes from Number 10?
Georgina Landemare
559. Who was Wlaydslaw Sikoski?
The leader of the Polish government-in-exile headquartered in England after the fall of France in 1940
565. In 1934 Churchill was offered £10,000 by producer Alexander Korda. What was it for?
To write a script for a George V documentary
571. In 1934 Churchill accused Sir Samuel Hoare of what action which was later ruled by Parliament as "false charges"?
Exerting undue influence on Manchester cotton manufacturers to support the Indian Bill
577.Who were the Dominion Prime Ministers during WWII? M. King of Canada, Curtin & Menzies of Australia, Fraser of New Zealand, Smuts of South Africa, and Huggins of Southern Rhodesia
583. In 1921 Churchill enlisted the help of what well-known personage to bring order to the Middle East? Lawrence of Arabia
589. "Occasionally he stumbled over the truth but hastily picked himself up and hurried on as if nothing had happened," was said by WSC about whom?
595. To whom was Churchill referring when he said, "If [he] invaded hell I would at least make a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons"?
601. Who was the "whipped jackal ...[who] comes frisking up at the side of the German tiger ..."?
607. There are many books written by people who worked with Churchill including secretaries, body guards, and doctors. How many authors can you name?
Lord Moran, physician; Elizabeth Nel, secretary; Walter Thompson and Edmund Murray, bodyguards; John Colville and John Martin, private secretaries
613.. Which of WSC's Harrow classmates became his first secretary?
John Milbanke (unofficial, unsalaried)
619. "I never left my apartment except for meals, & lay all day & most of the night cuddling yr bulky tome ... I marched with you .. never a cool drink, a hot bath. What a tale!" What book inspired this glowing letter from Churchill?
The Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T.E. Lawrence
625. Who were the "three B's," who supported Churchill throughout his political career?
Bracken, Birkenhead and Beaverbrook
631. Who said, "I neither drink nor smoke and am 100% fit," to which WSC replied, "I drink and smoke and I am 200% fit"?
Field Marshal Montgomery
637. "I am not a bit afraid of [?]. That man can think. I am afraid only of people who cannot think." To whom was WSC referring 1918?
Siegfried Sasson
643. Churchill said that he modeled his famous speaking style on an American Congressman he met in 1895. Who was he?
Bourke Cockran, an American Congressman he met in 1895
649. "They are not allowed to smoke or have any money ... or are they given any leave except two months ... I think ... young men ... who would resign their personal liberty to such an extent can never make good citizens or fine soldiers." Who were they?
The West Point Cadets
655. Who were the rulers of the "low countries" when Hitler invaded them?
King Leopold, Belgium; Queen Wilhelmina, Holland; and Grand Duchess Charlotte, Luxembourg
661. Who was chiefly responsible for Churchill's honorary American citizenship?
Kay Halle, an American journalist who met Churchill when she was based in London
667. In what year did Adolf Hitler become Chancellor of Germany?
673. "He was a man without a country yet he acted as if he was head of state" was said by WSC about whom in 1943?
De Gaulle
679. "All my thoughts are with you on this day which is so essentially your day. It is you who have lead, uplifted and inspired us throughout the worst days" was written to WSC by whom and on what day?
Anthony Eden wrote to WSC on VE-Day
685. Who owned the villa La Capponcina where Churchill often visited?
Lord Beaverbrook (Max Aitken)
691. What position did Churchill's good friend and counsel Jan Smuts hold during WWII?
Prime Minister of South Africa
697. Who cooked Churchill's and Lloyd George's vegetables when they dined in Carlton House the night war was declared in 1914?
Ho Chi Minh
703. Who was Churchill's last private secretary and is author of Long Sunset?
Anthony Montague Brown
709. Who said that Churchill's Fulton speech was 'nothing short of a declaration of war on Russia"?
George Bernard Shaw
715. Who said that Churchill's "place in history is secure." Prime Minister Attlee on 16 August 1945
721. Who said of Churchill in 1921, "[he] has come back from the Middle East as cross as a bear with a sore head and thinks that all the world is out of joint since he is not [Chancellor of the Exchequer]?
Austin Chamberlain
727. Who was First Lord of the Admiralty when the Dardanelles operation was abandoned?
Arthur Balfour
733. What profound influence did Lady Lavery have on Churchill's life?
She started Churchill's painting career
739. "He is the most difficult man I have ever served, but thank god for having given me the opportunity." Who said this about Churchill?
745. Who introduced Churchill on 12 December 1900 at his speech at the Waldorf-Astoria Ballroom?
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) introduced Churchill on the anniversary of his escape from Pretoria.
758. Whom did Churchill identify as "the resuscitation of the Pan-European idea?
Count Coudenhove-Kalergi was considered the father of the European Unity movement.
769. Who was General Eisenhower's Deputy Supreme Commander for SHAEF?
Air Vice Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder was named Deputy Supreme Commander by Churchill.
770. Did Churchill meet Hitler at Munich's hotel Continental in 1932?
Churchill did not meet with Hitler in Munich in 1932.
774. How many Prime Ministers did John Colville serve as Private Secretary?
779. Which Commonwealth Prime Minister tried to prevent Churchill's appointment to the government in 1939?
Prime Minister Menzies of Australia wrote to Chamberlain "....if Winston got into the Government it would not be too long before it were at war."
782. Can you name some of the people who helped Churchill obtain intelligence information while out of office?
Major Desmond Morton, Industrial Intelligence Centre; Michael Creswell and Ralph Wigram, Foreign Office; Squadron Leader Charles Torr Anderson; and Group Captain Lachlan Maclean helped Churchill with intelligence data.
789. Of whom did Churchill say: "In defeat indomitable; in victory unbearable"?
General Montgomery
793. About whom did Churchill comment: "We know that he has more than any other man the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thought"?
Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald
799. What was Malcolm Muggeridge's (of the Daily Telegraph) opinion of Churchill as writer and orator?
"Churchill is too rhetorical to be either a really great writer or orator."
817. About which American Secretary of State did Churchill comment: "He is the only bull I know who carries his own china closet with him."?
John Foster Dulles
823. Who replaced Lloyd George's second coalition Government as Prime Minister?
Andrew Bonar Law in November 1922
829. Who painted the Churchill picture which was hanging in Prime Minister Thatcher's office while she was Prime Minister?
Frank Salisbury (1874-1962) - it was borrowed from the Churchills
830. How long were the Churchills married?
57 years
835. What is the location of the bronze statue of Churchill sculpted by Ivor Robert-Jones?
Parliament Square, London, gazing at St. Stephen's Tower and Big Ben
836. Of whom did Churchill comment:"There for the grace of God goes God"?
Sir Stafford Cripps
841. What did Churchill say about his father's speeches?
"In his speeches he revealed a range of thought, an authority of manner and a wealth of knowledge, which neither friends nor foes attempted to dispute."
847. Name the artist of 'Profile for victory' in FH75. Alfred Egerton Cooper
853. Who attacked Churchill on 26 November 1910 with a whip, when he returned on the evening train from Bradford to London?
Hugh Franklin, a military suffragist, who blamed Churchill for his being arrested on Black Friday" 9 December 1910
859. Which future Secretary of State for War wrote the following about Churchill: "...He is absolutely untrustworthy, as was his father before him..."?
Lord Derby in a letter to Lloyd George on 19 of August 1916.
865. On what occasion was Churchill a guest of Kaiser Wilhelm in 1914?
Keil Regatta in 1914
871. On what occasion did Churchill's nephew John Spencer-Churchill compose a coronation march for him?
When Churchill became Knight of the Garter
877. Who described Churchill as "riding in triumph through Persepolis"?
Isaiah Berlin in Mr. Churchill in 1940
883. Who sponsored Churchill's wife Baroness Spencer-Churchill, when she entered the House of Lords?
Lords Normanbrook and Ismay.
889. After Churchill became First Lord of the Admiralty in 1911, who did he appoint as his Naval Secretary?
Admiral David Beatty
895. What name did Churchill call Sir John Cunningham?
Dismal Jimmy
901. When did the Churchill's daughter Marigold die?
24 August 1921
907. To whom did Churchill refer in December 1940 as "...a lunatic in a country of lunatics"?
Sir Stafford Cripps, British ambassador to the Soviet Union.
913. How many Prime Ministers did John Colville serve?
Three: Neville Chamberlain,Winston Churchill and Clement Attlee.
919. Nellie Hozier, Clementine Churchill's sister, served in World War I. What was her position?
Nellie Hozier was a nurse in Belgium in 1914; captured by the Germans, she was released almost immediately.
925. After Neville Chamberlain met Hitler he was asked to bring Churchill into the Government. What was his response?
"I won't have anyone who will rock the boat."
931. Who was "Goonie" Churchill?
Lady Gwendeline ('Goonie") Bertie married Winston's brother Jack.
937. Who did Churchill wish to be Godfather to Randolph?
25 June 22 1911 in a letter to his wife, he suggested Edward Grey
943. Where can you find the correspondence between WSC and Bourke Cockran, American lawyer and Democratic Member of Congress?
New York City Public Library
949. Who commented about WSC: "With all his faults, his is the lion heart"?
Harold MacMillan in is War Diaries
955. Who did Churchill send as his personal representative to Chiang Kaishekin 1943?
Lt General Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart
961. Did Churchill ever speak with President Kennedy?
No, Anthony Montague
Brown spoke with JFK.
967. When did Canadian PM Mackenzie King first meet Churchill?
As early as 1900 during Churchill's tour of Canada.
973. To whom did Churchill refer when he said "...it would have been better had he never lived."?
Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, whom he blamed for Britain's lack of preparedness at the outset of WW2.
979. Who was the first woman member of Parliament, who served with Churchill and often clashed with him?
Nancy Witcher Langhorne Astor (Viscountess Astor)
985. When Churchill first went to America in 1895 he was met at the quay by a friend of his American relations. He talks about him Amid these Storms. Who was it ?
Bourke Cockran
991. About which one of his friends did Churchill comment: "He had all the canine virtues in a remarkable degree--courage, fidelity, vigilance, love of chase." Lord Birkenhead
997. Why did T. E. Lawrence refuse the Commandership of the Bath and the Distinguished Service Order when the King was about to bestow them?
Lawrence intended to demonstrate what he considered "betrayal to the Syrian demands of France."
1003. What newspapers did Lord Beaverbrook control?
He bought a major interest in the Daily Express in 1919; in 1921 he founded the Sunday Express and in 1929 he bought the Evening Standard.
1009. Name the 13 Prime Ministers Churchill served with. Salisbury, Balfour, Campbell-Bannerman, Asquith, Lloyd George, Bonar Law, Baldwin, MacDonald, Chamberlain, Attlee, Eden, Macmillan and Douglas-Home.
1015. Who was Postmaster-General during World War II in Churchill's Government?
Professor Lindeman
1021. Who first said of Churchill, "He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle"?
Edward R. Murrow
1027. Which famous Portuguese novelist gave a talk on Churchill's 80th birthday, later published under the title "Churchill, o Estadista e o Escritor"?
Joaquim Paço D'Arcos
1033. What was Ernest Bevin's official position in the War Cabinet?
Minister of Labour and National Service
1039. Who was the originator of Winston Churchill's "Toyshop"?
Major, later Major-Gen. Sir Millis Jefferies established the weapons development organization nicknamed "Winston Churchill's Toyshop," which produced the fluvial and limpet mines.
1045. In October 1926 Churchill, as Chancellor of the Exchequer, replaced his Parliamentary Private Secretary, Sir Clive Morrison-Bell. Whom did he select?
1051 Sir Murland Evans, a fellow schoolmate of Churchill, recalled a conversation they had as young boys in which Churchill predicted that " London will be attacked and I shall be very prominent in the defence of London". Where did this discussion take place? as a student at Harrow
1057. What was the name and the business of the person who took Churchill into his home and helped him escape from the Boer prison?
John Howard was a naturalized burgher and manager of the colliery at Whitbank
1063. Which Prime Minister commented about Churchill "There comes Winston with his hundred horsepower mind"?
Stanley Baldwin
1069. What was the name of the suffragette whom Churchill encountered the first time during a pre-election meeting in North-West Manchester in 1905?
Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst
1075. Under whom did WSC serve as Under-secretary for Colonies?
Lord Elgin
1081. Who paid for Churchill's stay in Los Angeles in 1929?
James Rathwell Page, Vice President of the First National Bank in LA.
1087. Who wrote, "Had it not been for the resumption of the War, Churchill would not have had a dog's chance to crowning his career as Prime Minister"?
George Bernard Shaw
1093. What film studio did Churchill visit as guest of honor, during his tour of California in 1929?
1099. What were Churchill's comments regarding American Prohibition? At Pd Smith's Memorial broadcast on 14Oct47 Churchill commented, "I was in full agreement with his attitude on prohibition."
1105. Which U. S. Secretary of State said "Britain has lost an Empire but failed to find a role"?
Dean Acheson, Truman's Secretary of State
1111. On what occasion did Stalin comment, "To all intent and purposes, Mr. Churchill now takes his stand among the warmongers"?
Stalin called Churchill a warmonger in response to WSC's speech at Fulton, Missouri
1117. Churchill commented during the second reading of the Home Rule Bill, "The great old man looked like a great white eagle at once fierce and splendid." To whom did he refer?
When referring to "the great white eagle," Churchill meant William Ewart Gladstone.
1123. Who made this comment about 'Winston Churchill as a historian?
"Mr. Churchill suffers from a natural desire to record the prominent and often valuable part which his vigorous personality played in council, from a too exalted estimate of 'the wiser judgement of statesmen' and from a superabundance of speculative criticism." Colonel the Lord Sydenham of Combe commented on Churchill the Historian, in The World Crisis by Winston Churchill: A Criticism.
1129. Who was the "grocer" who became Churchill's "shadow" in 1939?
Detective Inspector W. H. Thompson served as Churchill's bodyguard for eleven years, retired in 1936 and opened a grocery business; Churchill called him back to duty in 1939.
1135. When Churchill proposed, the young actress told him she "would not be able to cope with the great world of politics." Who was she?
Ethel Barrymore
1141. How did Churchill characterize the difference between Arthur Balfour and H. H. Asquith?
"Arthur [Balfour] is wicked and moral, while Asquith is good and immoral."
1147. When Churchill became Under Secretary of State for the Colonies he picked Edward Marsh as his private secretary. Where had Marsh worked before his selection by Churchill?
Edward Marsh was a clerk in the West African Department before becoming Churchill's personal secretary.
1153. Which relative wrote to Churchill in 1898 about his novel
: "It is clear you have not yet attained a knowledge of women‹and it is evident you have...no experience of love"?
Duchess of Marlborough
1159. Who was the actor who claimed (falsely) to have given the "blood, toil, tears and sweat" speech?
Actor Norman Shelley
1165. Who did WSC call a "seditious Middle Temple lawyer and a fakir..."?
1171. To which statesman did Churchill refer when he wrote, "It is difficult for a man to do great things if he tries to combine a lambent charity embracing the whole world with the sharper forms of populist party strife"?
President Woodrow Wilson during WW1 peace negotiations
1177. In 1920 Lord Lee of Fareham gave what country house to the nation for the use of its Prime Ministers?
1183. In 1921 WSC's cousin, Lord Herbert Lionel Henry Vane-Tempest, died and WSC inherited what estate?
Garron Towers, County Antrim, Ireland
1189. What Leader of the House resigned while Churchill was attending the Cairo Conference in March 1921?
Andrew Bonar Law
1195. What did Sir Ernest Cassel give Churchill as a wedding present?
1201. In
The World Crisis
Churchill wrote, "...when I left the Admiralty on May 1915 the...only one of my colleagues who paid me a visit of ceremony was the overburdened Titan whose disappropriation had been one of the disconcerting experiences of my youth." To whom did he refer?
1213. Less than a week after the Wavertree election, Randolph Churchill again caused a violent reaction from his father. What was it?
Randolph announced his intention to put forward a candidate for Norwood, challenging the National Government's India policy. Churchill was furious and did not support his son.
1219. Who was British Ambassador to the United States when Churchill became Prime Minister in 1940?
Lord Lothian was British Ambassador to the U. S. from 1939 till his death on 12Dec40.
1225. Who commented in 1907 regarding Churchill as Undersecretary of the Colonies, "The sooner.. .Mr. Winston Churchill is sent as an ambassador to Timbuktu the better it would be for the Country and the Empire"?
Neville Chamberlain
Questions from 114
1231. About whom did Churchill comment, "He thinks he is Joan of Arc but my bishops won't let me burn him"? (C)
1237. Who was the leading free trader in the Edwardian Conservative Party, and Churchill's best man at his wedding? (C)
1243. Who assumed the Premiership upon Churchill's 1955 retirement? (C)
1249. Who was the fellow subaltern who accompanied WSC to Cuba in 1895? (C)
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Hennerty-Sassi Suzanne M. Hennerty and Ronald V. Sassi of Watchung, N.J., were married Oct. 11, 2014, in the Kirkpatrick Chapel at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J. After a reception at The Heldrich in New Brunswick, the couple honeymooned in St. Lucia. Suzanne, daughter of John Hennerty Jr. and the late Anne Hennerty of South Plainfield, N.J., works in advertising in Manhattan. Ronald, the son of Abbie and Ronald A. Sassi of Cranford, N.J., is a claims manager for NJTransit in Newark, N.J. Both the bride and groom are graduates of Rutgers.
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Lombardo-Rao Kathleen Lombardo and Christopher Rao of New York, N.Y., were married Jan. 3, 2015, at the Stone House at Stirling Ridge in Warren, N.J. Mr. Dave Scelba officiated. Kathleen, 31, a daughter of Frank and Ann Marie Lombardo of Hackettstown, N.J., graduated cum laude from Parsons, The New School for Design, with a BFA in photography. Christopher, 34, a son of Peter and Patricia Rao of Hillsborough, N.J., graduated cum laude from The College of New Jersey with a BS in marketing. Kathleen and Christopher met in 2006 and were engaged in 2013. Both are account managers at healthcare communications and marketing agencies in Manhattan; Kathleen at Sudler & Hennessey, and Christopher at AgencyRX.
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Natural gas futures dropped in New York as meteorologists predicted a shift to above-normal temperatures after wintry weather in the eastern U.S. this week.
Gas fell as much as 1.7 percent after forecasters including WSI Corp. in Andover, Massachusetts, said the weather will be warmer than normal in the Northeast from Nov. 12 through Nov. 16. Stockpiles of the fuel rose to a record 3.908 trillion cubic feet in the week ended Oct. 26, Energy Department data show.
"The market is going to have trouble rallying with these milder temperatures," said Gene McGillian, an analyst and broker at Tradition Energy in Stamford, Connecticut. "Inventories are still going to be at an all-time record."
Natural gas for December delivery fell 2.6 cents, or 0.7 percent, to $3.591 per million British thermal units at 11:46 a.m. on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Prices are down 2.8 percent from a year ago. Gas rose to $3.82 on Oct. 30, the highest intraday price since Nov. 4, 2011.
The low in New York on Nov. 12 may be 50 degrees Fahrenheit (10 Celsius), 7 above normal, according to AccuWeather Inc. in State College, Pennsylvania. The low in Boston may be 56 degrees, 17 more than the usual reading.
Heating demand in the Northeast may be 21 percent below normal from Nov. 13 through Nov. 17, data from Weather Derivatives in Belton, Missouri, show. About 50 percent of U.S. households use gas for heating, according to the Energy Department.
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A lack of Pacific Ocean warming and of blocking patterns in the Atlantic will probably mean warmer-than-normal weather in the eastern U.S. for the next three months, Todd Crawford, chief meteorologist at WSI, said in an Oct. 22 seasonal forecast. Temperatures in the East may be about 2 degrees Fahrenheit above normal from November through January, while the Northwest cools, Crawford said.
Marketed gas production will average a record 68.84 billion cubic feet a day this year, up 4 percent from 2011, the Energy Department said yesterday in its monthly Short-Term Energy Outlook. The department's forecast for total gas consumption fell to 69.75 billion cubic feet a day from 69.76 billion predicted last month.
The number of rigs drilling for natural gas in the U.S. rose by eight to 424 last week, according to data released Nov. 2 by Baker Hughes Inc. in Houston. The rig count is down 48 percent this year.
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"EIA expects that growth in associated gas from crude oil, as well as continued drilling in liquids-rich areas, will help offset the decline in drilling activity," the department's Energy Information Administration said in the outlook.
Department data scheduled for release tomorrow at 10:30 a.m. in Washington may show that gas inventories rose 27 billion cubic feet to a record 3.935 trillion in the week ended Nov. 2, according to the median of 16 analyst estimates compiled by Bloomberg. The five-year average change for the week is a gain of 36 billion, department data show.
The boom in oil and natural gas production helped the U.S. cut its reliance on imported fuel. America met 83 percent of its energy needs in the first six months of the year, department data show. If the trend goes on through 2012, it will be the highest level of self-sufficiency since 1991.
Barack Obama may consider introducing a tax on carbon emissions to help cut the U.S. budget deficit after winning a second term as president, according to HSBC Holdings Plc.
A tax starting at $20 a metric ton of carbon dioxide equivalent and rising at about 6 percent a year could raise $154 billion by 2021, Nick Robins, an analyst at the bank in London, said today in an e-mailed research note, citing Congressional Research Service estimates. "Applied to the Congressional Budget Office's 2012 baseline, this would halve the fiscal deficit by 2022," Robins said.
Natural gas emits about half the carbon dioxide of coal on an energy-equivalent basis, according to the Energy Department.
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Jim Rogers is bullish on commodities. Hes not only traveling all over the world to talk about the bull market, which he says began in early 1999, but hes developed his own indexThe Rogers International Commodity Indexand invested his own money in a fund designed to track that index.
Rogers, who had his first big investing success with George Soros, is also well known for his travels around the world which he documented in two books: Investment Biker and Adventure Capitalist. His latest book, Hot Commodities, gives investors the fundamentals of commodity investing and predicts the bull market will continue for at least 15 years. Rogers was interviewed by Will Acworth and Mary Ann Burns at the FIA International Futures Industry Conference in March.
FI: Why are you so bullish on commodities?
Rogers: Why commodities now? Because historically, if nothing else, every 25 or 30 years weve had a long multi-year bull market followed by a long multi-year bear market. In my view, were now in a new bull market. These things dont just fall out of the sky, they occur because of supply and demand. Theres been no investment in productive capacity in most commodities for 25 years and demand has continued to grow. So supply goes down, demand comes upit causes a bull market. Lets suppose you and I decide to go into the lead business. Its going to take us a long time to find a deposit. Even if we find a deposit, we still have to raise money and deal with the government and unions and environmentalists and a hundred other people. So it takes a long time to bring a new lead mine online. Thats why bull markets last a long time. Ultimately, of course, lead goes to a very high price, a lot of lead mines come online more or less at the same time, and people cut back on lead consumption. All of a sudden theres a huge glut and so the bear market begins, and it lasts a long time because weve built all these mines. This is very simple stuff, and its not as though I have any insight or genius, its just the way the world works.
FI: Are we going to see the kind of bull market we saw in the 70s when cattle, hogs and pork bellies were limit up every day on the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange?
Rogers: We certainly are. Were going to see it again. I dont really think I have proof of limit up, but youre going to see the great bull market that you saw in the 70s. Its coming back, its here, and I cant believe how wonderful its going to be. Right now people dont talk about commodities at all. Most people cant spell commodities. Its like mutual funds were 25 years agoif you said mutual funds to most people in the world, they didnt know what you were talking about.
FI: The growth of the Chinese economy has been a huge factor in the increased demand for commodities. You are on record as saying that China is about due for a correction. Wont that take a lot of the air out of the bull market for commodities?
Rogers: I expect a hard landing in the Chinese real estate market and perhaps other sectors later this year. It may not happen, but if it does, it could scare people and we might have a consolidation. There have always been corrections in every bull market in history in every asset class all over the world. There will be corrections in this bull market for whatever reasons. The smart people bought such corrections in the stock bull market of the 1980s and 1990s. The smart people will buy these commodity consolidations no matter what causes them.
FI: Lets talk for a minute about how an investor might get into this market. There are a small number of funds out there that invest in derivatives based on commodity indices. In most cases, they use swaps or structured notes to get that exposure. Your fund, on the other hand, is structured more like a commodity pool, and the money is invested entirely in exchange-traded derivatives.
Rogers: Yes, futures. Everything in this index fund is publicly traded on an exchange somewhere.
FI: Why did you structure your fund as a commodity pool instead of a mutual fund?
Rogers: We wanted complete transparency and liquidity. Plus we wanted it to be a simple, pure index fund so we use the second nearest contracts. There are also some tax advantages for some investors this way.
FI: Why shouldnt investors put their money in commodity stocks instead?
Rogers: The studies all show that you would make much more money in commodities than in commodity stocks. Think about itnatural gas has tripled. If you pick the right natural gas stock, you might do well, but there are 200 natural gas companies. Most people dont get the right ones. Thats because when youre dealing with commodity stocks, youve got to deal with management issues and a hundred other things that arent related to commodity prices. And there are always things going wrong with companies, including stock markets. Copper, on the other hand, is really dumb. Copper does not care who Alan Greenspan is. Its going to do what its going to do based on supply and demand, full stop.
FI: What are the hindrances to growing the commodity markets?
Rogers: Obviously speculative limits are a problem for the commodity markets. The data show huge amounts of money that want to be invested in commodities. Yale University and the University of Pennsylvania did a study recently that showed you would have made more money in the past 45 years investing in commodities with less risk and a better inflation hedge than in stocks and bonds. The academics have now said its okaythey have legitimized commodity trading. In the 1970s, the academics did a study on junk bonds and junk bonds became very legitimate and now there are billions of dollars invested in junk bonds. In the 60s there was a study done on stocks which said common stocks are okay again. The term they used was total return, and it made common stocks legitimate again after the 30s, 40s and 50s. This study is going to have the same effect. As commodities go higher and higher, and trustees are losing money in stocks and bonds, people are going to say, Why arent you in commodities? And theyre going to sneer and say, Commodities? And the other guy will say, What are you talking about? Yale University said its okay and University of Pennsylvanias Wharton School said its okay. And besides that, those guys are making money and youre losing your shirt over there in the bonds and stocks that are going down or doing nothing.
FI: What commodities would you like to see listed that arent currently exchange-traded?
Rogers: As many as possible. Twenty-five years ago there werent that many publicly traded stocks and now there are thousands. Theres nothing like a bull market to bring out people who say, Hey, lets go public. And that will happen in commodities, too. As more and more people get interested in investing in commodities, theyre going to need to find things in which to invest and exchanges, we hope, are going to be smart enough to bring out new products. Theyre talking about various things right now, some of which will succeed, some of which wont. But in 10-15 years, there will be lots, I promise you.
FI: How do you decide the weight of the commodities in your index?
Rogers: Thats an extremely good question. I didnt plan to do a commodities index. I had to do it because none of the rest of the indices was any good. I wanted something internationalthe others are U.S.-centricand I wanted something that was obviously transparent, consistent, and liquid. But my main goal was to come up with some idea of what it costs to do business around the world, or just to stay alivethat was my concept. The problem is that living standards are very different. Lets use Germany and Vietnam as examples. Those are both countries with 70 million people. Germany is an industrialized, mature, northern hemisphere country, lots of cars, etc. Vietnam is in the southern hemisphere; its not very industrialized, not many cars, but its booming. It may be the fastest-growing country in the world. How do you balance whats important to Germany and whats important to Vietnam? Oil obviously is extremely important to Germany, but not so important yet to Vietnambut it will be. My decision was based on judgment to some extent. You have to consider liquidity of course. I have rice in my index; none of the other indexes have rice even though two-thirds of the people in the world eat rice every day. But I couldnt put as much rice in my index as I would like because the liquidity isnt there yet. Some day liquidity will come because huge amounts of rice trade every day, but right now its all over the counter. The volume will come to the exchanges as the demand comes. And then, some of these weightings may have to change, but thats how I came up with it in the first place.
FI: So the basic mismatch is when you have elastic demand and inelastic supply.
Rogers: The demand is not that elastic either because, its unlikely soon, but if oil goes to $150 a barrel, were all still going to have electricity. The Chinese are not going to take out their electric lights any more than we are Were still going to drive cars and ride buses. Were not going to walk to work. We may reduce our usage some, but it takes a long time.
FI: Youre trying to anticipate demand?
Rogers: No, my concept was, what does it cost to stay alive? Theres no question that crude oil is the single most important commodity in the world. Look around your everyday life. Everything comes from energy, whether its cloth or material or plastic, energy, cars, buses, factorieseverything runs on energy, so crude is the single most important commodity. Orange juice is not as important as crude. The CRB index gives orange juice and crude oil the same weighting. The idea that crude oil and orange juice have the same importance to life or to staying alive or to doing business is ludicrous. Even if youre a Florida orange juice farmer, crude oil still is more important to you. Thats why I had to come up with my own index.
FI: How does your index differ from the Goldman Sachs or the Dow Jones-AIG indices?
Rogers: Goldman Sachs components fluctuate dramatically every year. Goldman Sachs can have livestock at 6% one year and 26% a few years later. It can have energy at 46% one year and 75% a few years later. AIG is the same thing. Its components change every year. AIG right now has natural gas and crude oil at the same weight. Most people have never heard of natural gas, much less use it. They also give aluminum a bigger weighting than wheat. Listen, aluminum is great stuff and its a miracle metal, but everybody in the world uses wheat every day. How you can say that aluminum is 50% more important to the world than wheat is beyond my comprehension. My weightings never change; theyre steady. This has my money and I want to know where it is going. You can have no idea at all what will be in the Goldman Sachs index or the AIG index in three or four years. Plus those two increase the weightings of things that go up! Bless their hearts, but do you know any serious investor who buys more after price rise?
FI: What would cause you to change the weightings?
Rogers: Well, if it was suddenly announced that orange juice causes cancer, there probably wont be a market in orange juice any more. If cotton cures cancer, thered probably be a bigger market in cotton. If we find that cotton cures cancer, I assure you, the liquidity in cotton is going to go through the roof, as will the demand, as will the production. If something dramatic like that happens, that would change the weightings. We are a pure, simple index fundthe only one as far as I know. We do not want the fund influenced by anything except the price of the commodities so we have to use the second nearest contract.
FI: I assume that you take a position in futures contracts, and then just roll them forward. Do you always go for the front months?
Rogers: No, the second month. Because its an index fund, were not trying to time anything. It is very, very simple. You cant get a spot month, obviously, because then youd get all kinds of delivery problems. We dont get into far-out months either because then you get contango and backwardization and youve got to make judgments. This is a simple index. This is so simple, and its the only one thats pure. Were not trying to judge anything. For collateral, we use short-term Treasury bills. Were not trying to be smarter than anybody else. Were just trying to be.
FI: How do you see the relative benefits of your index strategy versus a managed futures strategy, which involves buying and selling?
Rogers: All the studies have shown that index investing consistently outperforms managed investing. Index investing beats 80% of the managers year after year after year. Believe it or not, the Rogers index has done 450% better than the average CTA in the last six years. Again, the reason I started an index fund is because I may be the best manager in the world, I may also be the worst. Why should I find out which it is when I know that an index is going to beat 80% of the people in the world? Sure, if you can find a great manager, invest with her. And introduce her to me because Ill invest with her too. The problem is, finding the great managers, and finding them while theyve still got a future is tough. Everybody finds the great managers after theyve been great.
FI: Why not use commodity swaps in your fund to get exposure to the commodity prices instead of the futures?
Rogers: We might, and we might have to. Right now, the liquidity and the transparency, especially the transparency, are so much better with futures. The tax laws are good for futures, too, and I dont think the same tax laws apply to swaps. Futures are taxed at 60/40% on the long-term gain, whether you own it a day or 10 years, so there are tax advantages to using futures, too.
FI: Can you talk a bit more about that transparency?
Rogers: The world is full of examples of people that made up their prices. Thats not the kind of thing I want to be involved with. I dont want ever to have to make up a price. Its not as though Im trying to get rich off of this. Im trying to be simple, legitimate and honest and straightforward. And you dont have to worry about credit risk either with futures.
FI: Your fund is currently offered by Uhlmann Price Securities. Do you have plans to broaden the distribution?
Rogers: There are over 50 firms that sell the funds. We are always seeking more distribution and new firms.
FI: You also have a partnership in Europe with Diapason Commodity Management. Can you tell us more about that relationship?
Rogers: There are many foreigners these days who want to be able to invest in currencies besides the US dollar so this is for them. There are also many who are afraid to invest even in an offshore fund that has a US company behind it. Homeland Security is driving more and more non-US investors away.
FI: One last question. I think I overheard you saying that youre looking at setting up shop or an outpost in Asia.
Rogers: No, were thinking about moving to Asia because wed like to live outside the country for awhile. Ive got it in my blood. Ive been around the world twice; I like the world. Chinas a very exciting country right now. Were thinking about Spain, but Chinas on top of the list at the moment. My wife Paige says this is just idle chitchat on my part so well see. Our 23 month old baby girl is learning Mandarin so we might do it part of every year for her if nothing else.
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Monthly returns on the Rogers International Commodity Index since inception
August 1998 to March 2005
Note: Total return includes yield on collateral and roll returns as well as fluctuation in futures prices.
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Helps to provide a link to what you are talking about so we don't have to dig it up. :) Expensive IMO. Standard fencing and picking tomatoes at color break (often discussed here) rather than leaving them on the vine solves the problem. Color-break picking offers no loss and lots of gain. Dave |
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Tennis Leagues, Competitions & Activities
The club runs teams in the National Leagues and Sheffield & District Leagues to suit all standards of competitive players. We also run Singles Mini Boc Leagues for men and ladies, which usually run for 6-8 week periods; during this time you would be expected to play 6-8 matches. The leagues run throughout the year.
Annual Club Championship
The Hallamshire Club Championship, run during the Autumn months, includes singles, doubles, mixed and junior events.
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Monday night 19:00-21:00 | Mixed Social Tennis |
Tuesday night 19:00-21:00 | Ladies Social Tennis |
Wednesday night 19.00-21.00 | Men's Social Tennis |
Friday night 18.00-20.00 | Junior Social Tennis |
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For something more rustic—a place where the wood feels weighty and rough-hewn—visit Balex, a workshop and showroom located on the dusty road between Kuta and Jalan Raya Kerobokan. The Dutch-born owner, Alexander B. C. Hoek, creates bench-crafted furniture using traditional Japanese and early European joinery techniques. His family-sized kitchen tables and daybeds, made of recycled timbers, would fit nicely in country houses from Sonoma to Saratoga. Jalan Raya Kerobokan, Banjar Campuan, Kuta; 62-361/415-867.
JEWELRY Some 20 years ago, Jean-François Fichot landed on the white shores of this island to sell his necklaces on the beach. A native Frenchman who also joined the ranks of photogenic hippies in India during the late sixties, Fichot is as eccentric as the jewelry he designs. Serious collectors can call his office (62-361/974-601) for a private viewing of some larger pieces influenced by his travels to Cuba and Southeast Asia, but a fine selection of his work—pink-tourmaline and gold necklaces, Burmese jade pendants—is also available at Treasures, a gallery in Ubud showcasing five other local jewelers. Main Street, Ubud; 62-361/976-697; www.dekco.com/treasure.
Across town, John Hardy and his wife, Cynthia, produce sparkling semiprecious and precious jewelry, as well as black palm-wood-and-silver objects for the home. A few years ago the duo signed on French designer Guy Bedarida, formerly of Van Cleef & Arpels, whose passion for rare gemstones (peach sapphires and cinnamon diamonds) shaped the new Cinta collection. Some hotels will organize a tour of the Hardys' compound, a tightly run aggregation of small workshops and organic agricultural developments; there is also an on-site gift shop. Hardy plans to open his first U.S. boutique this Christmas in New York's Nolita district. 1 Jalan Baturning, Abiansemal, Mambal; 62-361/469-888.
CLOTHING Many of the finer fabrics in Bali are imported from India, which may explain why you sometimes feel you're in Delhi instead of Denpasar. Some of the designs are straitlaced reproductions of Indian clothes, but others are delightfully daring. Paul Ropp's beaded dresses, boleros, and fitted silk pants come in eye-popping shades of pink, purple, blue, and orange. Anyone who appreciates the flashiness of Versace—minus the revealing thigh-high slits and microminis—will want to save some space in her suitcases for Ropp. 1X Jalan Pengubengan, Depan LP Kerobokan, Kuta; 62-361/730-023; www.paulropp.com.
On the trendy stretch of Jalan Raya Seminyak stands Biasa, a two-story boutique reminiscent of the sporty elegance of Nicole Farhi. Design highlights include bias-cut skirts and tailored pantsuits in citrus linens, extra-long scarves in cool cottons, low-slung woven leather belts, and St.-Tropez-style beaded sandals. It's also worth taking a peek upstairs at the rack of crisp cotton pajamas for men and women. 36 Jalan Raya Seminyak, Kuta; 62-361/730-308.
By far, the most exquisite hand-painted and woven scarves are to be found at the Warisan Gallery, an exhibition space attached to the upscale Kafé Warisan, in Kuta. You'll find a tasteful mix of antique and contemporary objets d'art, including silver bracelets, opalescent bone spoons, and fanciful accessories by various local designers. In the center of the room stands a large round table with neatly folded silk scarves, some hand-dyed with ballerina pink, baby blue, or lilac stripes, others woven into multicolored, gold-threaded Missoni-style wraps for an un-Missoni-style price, $90. 38 Jalan Raya Kerobokan, Banjar Taman, Kuta; 62-361/730-710.
ONE-STOP SHOPPING As more and more tourists seek the Balinese "experience," resourceful entrepreneurs have developed a new retail concept. "I call it warung chic," says Jane Hawkins of her store Asia Style, one of the growing number of island boutiques offering beautiful products from across the region. Hawkins borrowed the term from the small street stands that sell everything from fruits to flip-flops. Asia Style carries a well-edited sampling, with its delicate bone spoons, ornate frames, and embroidered antique throws. 52 Jalan Raya Sayan, Sayan, Ubud; 62-361/970-056.
Pass through Palanquin Bali's elephant-tusked doors and you'll find a more Westernized selection, including leather and wood chess sets, square gold-lacquered plates, and reproductions of 1950's Balinese tourism posters. The thematic approach is amusing, but not altogether authentic: a collection of vintage windup ducks labeled DISCOVERED IN JAVA was MADE IN CHINA. 8 Jalan Bypass Ngurah Rai, Simpang Siur, Kuta; 62-361/766-555; www.palanquinbali.com.
MELISSA CERIA has written for Vogue, Departures, and the New York Times.


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