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Edward F. Cantasano (November 25, 1905 – January 17, 1989) also known as Mario Contasino, was an unemployed mechanic from Yonkers who, on December 13, 1931, accidentally hit the future Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Winston Churchill, while driving a car.
Oct 9, 2019 · Lithgow-Churchill looks up and says, “an empty taxi-cab pulled up and out stepped Clement Attlee.” Of course, I lost it. “He never said that!” “There’s no good evidence…” By the time I got a couple of sentences into my rant about the myths of the Attlee-Churchill relationship, Lady Buzzkill had bolted out of the room and locked the wine cellar.
Apr 30, 2017 · Churchill’s private secretary came to him with a story men were guffawing over in the London clubs: “An empty taxi drew up outside Number Ten, Downing Street, and when the door opened, Attlee got out.”
Apr 30, 2017 · An hour before the time of his speech, he stopped a taxi in the street and asked the driver to take him to the BBC, but the taxi driver, who did not recognise him, said he could not take him anywhere just then, because he wanted to go back to his home at the other end of London to hear Churchill make a speech on the radio.
The taxi driver, who was new to Manhattan, turned around. Churchill got out on the Central Park side, walked a few paces north and then tried to cross the avenue against the light. Used to...
Churchill and the Taxi Driver : An English short story Join us in revisiting a delightful historical anecdote involving Winston Churchill, the former Prime M...
Former British Prime Minister and World War II hero Winston Churchill often shared the story of an experience he had with a British cab driver. According to Churchill’s tale, one day he took a taxi to the BBC headquarters for an interview.
