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Married. Major Benjamin Welles, 29, bonvivacious elder son of sobersided Sumner Welles, and prewar New York Timesm&n., soon to join the Times's China staff; and Cynthia Monteith Aitken, 28, ex-wife of Lord Beaverbrook's son Max; he for the first time, she for the second; in London...
...Peter Aitken, 34. auto-racing second son of Lord Beaverbrook (and brother of bemedalled R.A.F. veteran Max Aitken) was fined $42 and given a two months' jail sentence for drunken driving in London...
...SCOTT F. AITKEN...
...Most Britons, even the Conservatives, were divided on the wisdom of holding an election so soon, but Tories in general trusted Churchill's political instinct. Two of Churchill's Cabinet intimates-Lord Beaverbrook (Max Aitken) and Brendan Bracken-had insistently urged an immediate election (for fear that Britons' wartime memories would dim). Just as insistently the Labor Party had urged delay till autumn (in hopes that they would). Quipped Labor's Arthur Greenwood of Max and Brendan: "M & B* can save a man once-it saved Winston when he had pneumonia-but M & B a second...
Lord Beaverbrook, Britain's dynamic, impish 65-year-old Lord Privy Seal, visited his old Canadian boyhood haunts in the Newcastle district of New Brunswick. Remembered by old neighbors in Newcastle as plain Mr. Aitken, he thanked his good friend, William Corbett, a grocery clerk, for sending to London his favorite recipe for buckwheat flapjacks, called on an aged recluse who writes him a weekly Newcastle newsletter, went salmon fishing...