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Ever since "Clem" became Britain's Prime Minister, Violet Attlee has been grappling with a problem almost as engrossing as nationalization of the Bank of England: how to make No. 10 Downing St. homey. (The British word for it is "homely.") Last week, after looking over No. 10's 63 rambling rooms (seven baths), she solved it: the Attlees will live only on the top floor (19 rooms). When the furniture has been reshuffled and the family knickknacks placed, the Attlees will move in with their second daughter Felicity, their kitten Whisky and their terrier Ting...
Officially, Laski is chairman of the Labor Party's National Executive Committee (a rotating position). He has been close to Prime Minister "Clem" Attlee (whom Laski considers too conservative), has prestige with Labor's rank & file (who are proud of their "posh" professor), has even greater influence on Britain's leftist intellectuals. But many Labor Party members dislike Laski for his "intellectual snobbishness," his impatience with trade-union "bread & butter questions" of today, his preoccupation with the Marxist power problems of tomorrow...
Excellent salary and chance for advance ment." Maritallergy. In Seattle, Clem Perrin received a divorce after testifying that his wife's hair aggravated his asthma...
...reporting for Army induction. A month before, Red Sox pitching had suffered a body blow when the Navy claimed 18-game winner Tex Hughson. Although $65,000 had been promptly peeled off Owner Tom Yawkey's bulging bank roll for two Pacific Coast League pitchers, Rex Cecil and Clem Dreisewerd (who beat the Yankees in his debut), the experts still figured that lack of pitching would keep Boston among the also-rans...
Company 2 social bugs while away an evening at Wellesley. Raska, Pugh, and Ringe were still starry-eyed Monday morning as C.P.O. Clem calisthenically beat us to death...