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...four grandchildren. Carloads of theater friends and Kirkland's fellow writers arrived regularly from New York for extended house parties. Amid all the drinking and countryside romping, Gelsey stood out as the poker-faced toddler. "Her seriousness was always a source of kidding," says Brother-in-Law Don Bevan. "But she would never encourage it. She would never give the adults satisfaction. You could never get her to sit on your lap and be cuddly...
When Laborite Aneurin Bevan set up Britain's "womb-to-tomb" National Health Service a generation ago, he responded to doctors' opposition by declaring, "I shall stop their mouths with money." Their criticisms have never really ceased, however, and in recent months NHS doctors have been objecting with increasing vehemence to a government plan that could severely curtail the lucrative private practices many of the senior specialists maintain on the side. Last week their resentment finally erupted into action. In the first nationwide strike since NHS was founded, the 15,000 junior physicians who provide much...
...contends that Saunders, David C. Bevan, Penn Central's former chief financial officer, and other Penn Central managers arranged improper transactions between the railroad and its subsidiaries, improperly recorded revenue and made false statements about Penn Central's borrowings. The SEC is also attempting...
...actions against a newspaper-Fleet Street calls them "gagging writs"-all discussion of the case is normally suspended, at least until the suits are adjudicated. Editors who have complained at being muzzled have found little sympathy from officials. "You cannot muzzle a sheep," the late Labor Party firebrand Aneurin Bevan once cracked...
...backbencher from the left wing of the party and regarded by many as a brilliant choice to keep the labor unions in line. One of the finest orators in the House of Commons, he is a prolific journalist and has written a well-regarded biography of the late Aneurin Bevan (TIME...