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Jack Avis, John Atherton, Bill Bliss, Link Boyden, Ed Brainard, Larry Brownell, Warren Clark, Clem Despard, Phil DuBois, Dugald Fletcher, Bill Geertsema, George Gifford, Monty Goodale, Tom Hagoort, Lee Henderson, Charley Higginson, Frank Huntington, Ben Jeffries, George Kinnel, Lefty Leftkowitz, and Steve Lincoln...
...party meeting, Bevan taunted Attlee by saying, "Clem, you're a liar." Attlee sputtered back: "You are!" At that warm moment, Tom O'Brien, leader of the studio and theater workers' union, broke in: "May I propose that we transfer this meeting to Westminster Hall where we can have a brass plaque inserted in the floor to record for history, 'On this spot, the Labor Party committed suicide, aided and abetted by Clement Attlee and Aneurin Bevan...
...tension relaxed; sanity and even some order were restored. A moment later, onetime Bevanite John Strachey claimed the floor to introduce a compromise resolution urging re-establishment of the old rule that Laborites must promise to vote with the party except on "matters of conscience," e.g., pacifism. Still quivering, Clem and Nye were both persuaded to accept the motion. Labor's rift was thus papered over for the time being-but the crack was still there...
Fred Moseley rowed in the seven seat of the winning boat, with Link Boyden at six, George Walcott five, Clem Despard four, Nick Brown three, Lee Henderson two, John McLeod bow, and Al Lefkowits cox. Reuben Richards' boat came in second in 4:03, with Larry Brownell's eight third three seconds later. Bob Terry's boat was fourth and Tom Adams' last...
...Clem Attlee's tour served Labor well by reviving the class hatreds born in "the bad old days." One of Labor's political weaknesses is that a new generation is growing up with little experience of such "capitalist exploitation." At Labor meetings, sometimes as many as two-thirds are people in their 50s. Grumbled one old diehard: "The youngsters will ruin us. They're too young to remember Tory misrule...