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...force a vote. Not expecting any important business to come up, most of the Tories had scattered far & wide, and many of them had been careless about being paired in their absence (Churchill paired with Opposition Leader Attlee, since both were dining that evening with U.S. Ambassador Winthrop Aldrich). Before the vote was called, the Labor whip rushed out to phone his flock. One set, who had been campaigning in two London districts for imminent by-elections, was easily found in pubs; and a group of 20 Bevanites were discussing their future at the home of one of them...
...again. He moved into fast company by lunching at Chequers with Squadron Leader Neville Duke, Britain's record-breaking jet pilot (see SCIENCE). Next day he dropped in at 10 Downing Street for a surprise visit, conferred for an hour with U.S. Ambassador Winthrop W. Aldrich. At week's end, he was in the royal box at Doncaster, where Queen Elizabeth saw her horse Aureole finish third in the St. Leger stakes, later joined the royal family at Balmoral Castle to celebrate his 45th wedding anniversary with Lady Churchill. The London News Chronicle, viewing all this activity with...
Winthrop W. Aldrich...
...Boston's Mrs. Thomas Bailey Aldrich was "the only person in existence who had seen Harriet Beecher Stowe drunk" It happened when youthful, innocent Hostess Aldrich decided to impart a higher tone to her claret cup by adding the contents of a curiously shaped bottle which she understood came from a Carthusian monastery." The day was warm, and after downing two tumblers of the brew, Visitor Stowe had the illusion that she had become a sailor. Her "berth" (the sofa), she complained, was "going up and down" so tempestuously that she had difficulty in climbing into it. Her last...
...Nominated Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller, multimillionaire charitarian and coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, as Under Secretary (at $17,500 a year) to Health, Education, and Welfare Secretary Oveta Culp Hobby...