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...Laborites. Among the Conservative victors was Sir Winston Churchill's 29-year-old grandson and namesake, who won a seat at Stretford, Lancashire, in his second try for public office. Among the Laborite losers was the irrepressible George Brown, deputy party leader and former Foreign Secretary, who lost the Belper constituency he had held for 25 years. Another casualty was the tiny Liberal Party, which lost seven of its 13 seats in Parliament...
...Lady Belper never liked the small painting of Christ in the library of her home, Kingston Hall in Nottinghamshire. When villagers asked her to contribute something to their jumble sale last winter she thought she'd "get rid of it once and for all." She tagged the picture at a few shillings and sent it off. But bargain-hunting villagers didn't give it a second glance. Back it came to its donor...
Last week the villagers had reason to be sorry. The Belper painting, up for sale again, and catalogued as Rubens' The Carrying of the Cross, brought a tidy $14,000 at a London auction...
...Lady Belper admitted she hadn't known it was a Rubens. "Of course, my husband knew," she explained. "But he's got so many lovely paintings I can't quite remember what they...
Engaged. Aerielle Frazer, 21, pretty Toledo heiress (Willys-Overland) and post-debutante (she was brought out in swank-stuffed Newport); and Michael Strutt, 24, second son of British Lord Belper...