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THAT SUMMER IN PARIS (255 pp.)-Morley Callaghan-Coward-McCann...
...city at large but that part of it where The Sun Also rose from, a few streets and cafes in St.-Germain-des-Prés and Montparnasse, where every Tom, Scott and Ezra thought of himself as a man of genius, and in some cases was. Morley Callaghan, Canadian novelist, is one of those who have survived to tell how they once saw Ernest plain...
...first round of electing a successor to the late Hugh Gaitskell, Harold Wilson, 46, last week won an unexpectedly handsome lead over his two opponents. He got 115 votes; Gaitskell's deputy, Acting Leader George Brown, an early favorite, got 88; and a third candidate, James Callaghan, who was automatically eliminated, got 41. Only eight votes short of the outright majority needed for victory on the first ballot, Wilson became an odds-on favorite to defeat Brown in this week's runoff...
Brown defeated Wilson for the deputy leadership, 133 to 103, last year. But this time Brown has an added challenge: James Callaghan, 50, who also has strong middle-road and right-wing support. A naval petty officer's son who would have been Chancellor of the Exchequer in a Gaitskell Cabinet, "Stoker" Callaghan is a hard-boiled debater and effective TV performer, but is regarded by many colleagues as a lightweight. To prepare for the chancellorship, he has been cramming with some of Oxford's brightest young dons, who privately rate him "B or B-plus...
...British membership in the Common Market, and many thought his position was strengthened by de Gaulle's rejection of the British bid. Observers believe that Gaitskell will be succeeded either by his deputy, George Brown; Labor's export on foreign affairs, Harold Wilson; or its fiscal authority, James Callaghan...