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Married. Desi Arnaz, 46, TV ex-tycoon (Desilu Productions Inc.) and ex-husband (Lucille Ball); and Edith Mack Hirsch, 45, wife until earlier last week of Millionaire Sportsman Clement Hirsch, and like Lucy a redhead; both for the second time; in Las Vegas...
Texans & Tahitians. Some lineages in the latest edition are brutally brief. Lord Morrison of Lambeth, who was known to working-class Englishmen on Our 'Erbie when he was Deputy Prime Minister in Clement Attlee's Labor government, rates one sentence of genealogy: "His Lordship is son of the late Henry Morrison, police constable of Brixton, England." On the other hand, Burke's-which sends the Queen a free copy of the $32.34 book specially bound in her favorite blue goatskin-devotes 45 pages of minute type to the royal family's doings since the days...
Hugh Gaitskell's death caused a seismic shock in the Labor Party, for he alone was responsible for bringing Labor to the point where it could be seriously reckoned as a potential alternative government. When he succeeded Clement Attlee as opposition leader in 1955, he inherited a party rent by dissension and choked by the dogma and tradition of class warfare. But in his seven years of leadership, he had largely healed Labor's divisive internal lesions, trimmed away many of its stifling old Socialist doctrines, and so successfully imprinted his modern ideas on the party that...
...years ago when he was tapped by Prime Minister Macmillan to boss Britain's nationalized coal industry, Labor M.P. Alfred Robens, 52, hardly seemed a promising choice. A dedicated socialist and onetime Minister of Labor under Clement Attlee, Robens had had no experience at all in running a big business. And the task before him was staggering. Burdened with uneconomic mines and archaic mining methods, Britain's coal industry had piled up a deficit of $227 million since its nationalization...
Prime Minister Clement Atlee apopinted him Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1950, one year before the Conservatives returned to power. Gaitskell became head of the Labor Party in 1955, when Atlee was named an earl and joined the House of Lords...