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...Gain a Plague. Among the men around Churchill in this moment of decision would be several who have hoped to inherit his leadership: tired, greying, 49-year-old Anthony Eden (most Britons still think of him as younger and more dynamic than he actually is); cool, aloof Richard Austen ("Rab") Butler; able Sir Oliver Lyttelton; clever Harold Macmillan; lazy Oliver Stanley. But there was little doubt that the telling weight in the decision would be Churchill's. And there was almost no doubt that Churchill would decide against trying for a knockout blow...
...Hardy's often cumbersome, melodramatic writing if they fail to grasp that his work was modeled on the Elizabethan drama-on the wild and stormy tragedy of King Lear and The Duchess of Malfi rather than on he carefully constructed novel form of a Tolstoy or a Jane Austen. They may also become impatient with his pessimism if they do not realize that, unlike his great Elizabethan predecessors, Hardy was a reluctant atheist...
...Lieut. Colonel John K. Waters, who was badly wounded in the fracas. Patton, denying that he even knew Waters was there when he launched the operation, displayed his personal diary to prove it; his motive, he said, was concern for all Allied prisoners. Some men (including Hearst Correspondent Austen Lake, who was with the Third Army at the time and told the story last week) wondered if Patton should not have shown more concern for his own soldiers. Major Baum, hospitalized and back in the U.S., offered an explanation which Patton himself did not think to mention. The 4th Division...
...Conservatives. From them it captured 130 seats. Scotland went almost solidly Labor. The landslide was pitted with startling "firsts." For the first time in British history a cathedral city (Winchester) went Labor. For the first time in history Birmingham, traditionally conservative home of the conservative Chamberlains (Joseph, Austen and Neville), went Labor...
Roared Columnist Austen Lake in the Boston American: "If Private McGee-God bless him-socked nine Heinies for refusal to follow work orders it is no more than nine million other guys in our Army have been yearning to do for years." In Boston and New York, Hearstlings set "storm of protest" experts to work, got shocked statements from statement-givers, bombarded Congressmen with telegrams. Upshot: Private McGee was reinstated. (Other newspapers went along cautiously; some suspected that there might be something wrong with a private of seven years' standing...