On Churchill’s eightieth birthday, in 1954, a young man was sent to take his photograph. Full of awe, he breathed, ‘Sir Winston, it is wonderful to take your photograph on your eightieth birthday and I do look forward to taking it again on your hundredth birthday.’ Kindly, the great man replied,‘Young man, you appear to me to be in good health and sound in wind and limb. So I see no reason why you should not.’
