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...sampling of its 4,500,000 readers, Britain's largest tabloid, the breezy London Mirror, asked what Tory they wanted to succeed Churchill if Churchill should retire. Results: Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, 50.36%; Chancellor of the Exchequer Richard Austen ("Rab") Butler 35.5%. "The striking feature of the poll is the solid measure of support for Mr. Butler," observed the Mirror. "Even two years ago his name would have meant little to the public." A Gallup poll taken last April confirmed the Mirror's observation. Then the result was: Eden 64%; Butler...
With their No. 1 man out of commission as well as their No. 2 man, the Tories had to drop the mantle of responsibility on someone else. Churchill's choice was one of the party's younger but more impressive figures, 50-year-old Richard Austen ("Rab") Butler, the able and coldly aloof Chancellor of the Exchequer. So-called theoretician of the Tory Party, Rab Butler was born in India, the son of a British civil servant, became a Cambridge don after chalking up a brilliant scholastic record there, married the heiress of the wealthy Courtauld textile empire...
Brower, an authority on both Greek and English literature, will teach Humanities courses in the General Education program as well as literary subjects in the department of English. His critical interests range from Pindar to modern writers, with special interest in Dryden, the early eighteenth century poets, and Jane Austen. He is the author of "Fields of Light," a study of various literary landmarks from Shakespeare to Virginia Woolf...
...first lesson in the Sunday service at the Church of St. James the Apostle in the Essex village of Greenstead Green was read to the congregation by that distinguished parishioner, Chancellor of the Exchequer Richard Austen ("Rab") Butler. The text was from Isaiah. "How beautiful upon the mountains," read Butler, "are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings ... of good...
...Austen Lake, Boston Record sports columnist, blamed "organized apathy" on the part of students and an athletic policy controlled by "Wall Street alumni favorable toward crew" for part of the plight of the football team at last night's meeting of the Athenaeum...