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...Bristol, Tenn...
...Gothic vastness of the House of Parliament, a blond young Englishman wandered familiarly through the members' smoking room, the green-carpeted corridors of the Commons and its stone-flagged lobbies. But although he was duly elected to Parliament from South-East Bristol in 1950 and returned three times since, Anthony Wedgwood Benn, 35, dared not enter the Commons chamber last week. The reason: upon the death of his father, Tony Wedgwood Benn had become the second Viscount Stansgate. As a peer, he was ineligible to sit in the House of Commons...
...Tony's unemployment status was made official when his national insurance cards were returned. Nobody listened when the hapless peer insisted that everyone keep calling him just plain Mr. Anthony Wedgwood Benn. When he applied for the usual M.P.'s railroad pass to visit his constituency in Bristol, Viscount Stansgate was told to pay for the ticket himself...
According to a lady who met him in Bristol during one of his sketching trips through England, Joseph Mallord William Turner was not the sort of visitor a hostess would want to have more than once. He was "uninteresting" in manner and "slovenly" in appearance. "He is not at table polite; he would be helped, sit and lounge about, caring little for anyone but himself, or about any subject except his drawing." Turner's dedication may have been hard on those around him, but it produced some of the most delicate and influential works of art ever to come...
Stung to the quick, Kennedy rejected any aspersions on his patriotism, and the campaign began to get more intense at long last. In Bristol, Tenn., Kennedy's voice was icy. "I support the President." he said. "I did not need to be reminded of that yesterday." But the Nixon counterattack continued, and several reporters thought they saw a return of the old Nixon campaigning style. Kennedy, said Nixon in Springfield, Mo., "is just as strong in his opposition to Communism as I am, but because of his lack of knowledge and experience, he urged a course of action...