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Shortly after her husband took off for Washington with Prime Minister Winston Churchill to appraise the decline of the West (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), Mrs. Clarissa Eden, 34, Sir Winston's niece and wife of Britain's Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, nervously checked into a London hospital for observation...
Although British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden has shown "excellent progress" in recent weeks, his doctors announced that another gall-bladder operation has "become imperative." With Mrs. Eden (the former Clarissa Churchill) at his side, he will be flown to Boston this week for an operation by Dr. Richard Cattell-his third since he took down with a chill on March...
Childhood & Education: Precociously intelligent, and a listener-in almost since cradle days to political talk, Clarissa has early memories of Uncle Winnie building brick walls at Chartwell. "He was always in overalls," she says. "He liked to talk at long, long dinners." Packed off to boarding school at 14, sent to Paris for "finishing," went to Oxford to read philosophy. Introduced to London society in 1938, unofficially named "most beautiful debutante of the year...
Career: Not rich, left with an income of about ?200 ($560) a year, Clarissa worked in the wartime Ministry of Information on Britansky Soyuznik, an English-language propaganda newspaper edited in London and published in Russia. Later switched to the Foreign Office. Postwar jobs: feature editor (books, art, travel) of the London edition of Vogue; publicity woman at ?1,000 a year (a good salary for a woman in Britain) for Moviemaker Sir Alexander Korda...
Married. Anthony Eden, 55, Britain's Foreign Secretary; and Clarissa Spencer-Churchill, 32, the Prime Minister's niece; he for the second time, she for the first; in a private civil service; in London (see FOREIGN NEWS...