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...somewhat anticlimactic. "Respectable," said the London Times, rather unchivalrously, "but hardly exciting." Added the Daily Telegraph: "The list makes history -without unduly disturbing it." Absent were the expected names of sharp-tongued, Virginia-born Lady Astor, the first lady to sit in Britain's Parliament, and Lady Violet Bonham Carter, busy daughter of the late Prime Minister Sir Herbert Henry Asquith. Also missing: the Viscountess Rhondda, who died last week...
...Liberals went all out. They picked as their candidate personable 36-year-old Mark Bonham-Carter. For three weeks the battle raged through the narrow lanes and market villages of North Devon-from Sheepwash to Zeal Monachorum, from Milton Damerel to Buckland Brewer, from Wrinkeberry to Woolfardisworthy to Frithelstock. The candidate's energetic mother, 70-year-old Lady Violet
...Bonham Carter,* was on the stump at least three times a night drawing cheers with her assaults on "the muddled controls of the Labor Party and the uncontrolled muddle of the Tories" and harking back to the glorious days of Liberalism when her father, Lord Asquith, was Prime Minister (1908-16). Last week Bonham-Carter triumphantly topped the Tory candidate by a narrow 219 votes (with Labor a poor third) and became the new M.P. from Torrington. Mused a Devon farmer in corduroy breeches and leather leggings: "The Liberals may be no better'n no worse...
...months ago, Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn showed up at Independence, Mo. to help Harry Truman dedicate his museum (TIME, July 15). Last week at Bonham, Texas Harry returned the favor. Sam's museum, a $500,000 Greek-temple affair in white marble, houses gavels, gimcracks and the nation's most complete private collection of books about Congress-including records of all sessions since the first Continental Congress. On hand for the museum-warming was the most complete collection of Texas big shots seen in recent years: Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson, Oveta Gulp Hobby, Secretary...
...have actually been poor, and understandably they smirk when they pick up the memoirs of a posh erstwhile pink like Philip Toynbee (son of A Study of History'> Arnold J.) and read:"It was there, at Castle Howard, that I fell in love with Laura Bonham-Carter; and what I best remember about the first breathless evening is a dinner in the Canaletto room...