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...woolly Marxism of the university's Labor Club, helped found the more moderate Democratic Socialist Club. While still in his 20s he wrote a biography of his friend and political mentor Clement Attlee, has since penned three historical works, including a bestseller on Liberal Prime Minister Herbert Asquith. His latest: Victorian Scandal (see BOOKS), about the ruination of Liberal Sir Charles Dilke. "I regard writing as the only real work," Jenkins once said, and he does it well enough for the Economist to have once considered him for its editorship...
...Office nabob, goes out to buy a motorized bauble for his wife (Jeanne Moreau). "I don't much care for the shape of the decanter," Harrison purrs, eying the built-in bar accessories. He has the automobile delivered during a party on Ascot eve, and Veteran Director Anthony Asquith (The V.l.P.s) begins scratching through the smooth surfaces of leisure-class life with exquisite malice. At dinner, Moreau arranges a tryst with one of Harrison's subordinates (Edmund Purdom), masking her passion with some sprightly table talk about the anchovy sauce served on British trains. Next day, while Harrison...
Only two years ago, the long-eclipsed party of Asquith and Lloyd George seemed to many Britons a bright potential alternative to the tired Tory government of Harold Macmillan and the faction-torn Labor Party of Hugh Gaitskell. But as elections neared and both major parties closed ranks under new leaders, the Liberal "resurgence" ingloriously petered out. When Britons go to the polls Oct. 15, they will probably elect no more than seven of some 365 Liberal candidates...
...away." As the press conference broke up, Macmillan turned to his wife, Lady Dorothy, said, "La commedia e finita." He had boldly played the game of politics for 40 years-23 on the front bench, 17 in office, and seven as Prime Minister (the longest continuous rule since Asquith resigned...
Considerable & Unabashed. Nothing, it seemed, could dent his ego. After he became editor of London's Saturday Review, he was convinced that it was only his lack of height (he was only 5 ft. 5 in.) that barred him from Parliament. Lady Asquith noted in her Autobiography that Harris monopolized every conversation, but Harris was unabashed. "The fact that the Prime Minister and his wife were asked to meet me," he writes, "shows that I had a very considerable position in London...