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...Britain's Prime Minister Clement Attlee could still feel the ground shaking. He swiftly took the pulse of his cabinet and his opposition, and decided to hustle off to Washington for a personal conference with the President. From the U.S. embassy in London came an urgent query: Could Clem Attlee fly over? Secretary of State Acheson got on the private wire to the White House. Fifteen minutes later he cabled back one urgent word: "Agree...
...election returns from Michigan sounded like a Kentucky Derby broadcast by Clem McCarthy. Soon after they got off, rugged ex-Governor Harry F. Kelly, who lost a leg in World War I, slipped ahead. By midevening, he was out front by 41,000 votes. By breakfast time next morning, young (39) Democratic Governor G. Mennen Williams, heir to a soap fortune and undeviating friend of organized labor, was only 9,000 behind and coming up fast...
Violet Attlee, 53, comely, dynamic wife of Great Britain's Clem, enrolled for training in the ambulance section of London County's civil defense corps...
...back the regard of correspondents who had been offended by his toplofty manners. As he lay on a litter awaiting transportation to Japan, a G.I. asked him: "Are you really Winston Churchill's son?" Churchill eyed him coldly and snapped: "Well, I'm certainly not one of Clem Attlee's offspring...
...Sooner than radio listeners became of him. As he had done a year ago with Derby Winner Ponder, gravel-voiced Radio Caller Clem McCarthy overlooked Middleground's stretch rush, barely got him under the wire...