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...poetry is probably the best part of the issue, though it is spotty in the extreme. "Continental Lyre," by Clement B. Wood '47, is a lively and clever account of the tribulations of the traveller in Europe, it probably contains the least-force humor of the issue. David McCord's dissertation on Kieller's Marmalade and Nathaniel Frothingham's wistful complaint about Governor Dever's Great New Highway System are pleasant if you happen to be interested in marmalade or roads at the time, but both drag terribly on route...
Last week, among Labor leaders crowding the government's front bench to support the Chancellor of the Exchequer in his budget address, Bevan was conspicuously absent. Gaitskell had won Prime Minister Clement Attlee to his view that the government must economize drastically for rearmament, even to the point of making cuts in the bounty of the welfare state. Britons could not expect to save their skins, Gaitskell argued, if they considered only their teeth and eyes. He slapped a charge of 50% of cost on dentures and spectacles...
...Gaitskell spoke, Bevan lurked in the shadows behind the Speaker's chair, hands in pockets, pouting and mumbling to himself over public defeat. When the Chancellor had finished, Bevan strode angrily from the House, drove to the hospital where Clement Attlee is recuperating from duodenal ulcer, let it be known that he would not give up the fight for a completely free health service...
Foreign Office employees all over the world gave sixpence apiece to send Ernie a parting gift (a mahogany desk and Worcester dinner service). "When the history of this century comes to be written," said Clement Attlee, "the name of Ernest Bevin will stand very high indeed...
Sexton Fresnay, ragged, unschooled and in awe of the pulpit, agrees against his will to take up a few of the priestly duties. But he is pushed deeper & deeper into the role by the demands of his flock. He rejects the girl (Andrée Clement) who wants to marry him, moves into the rectory, reluctantly listens to confessions, fearfully goes through the motions of giving absolution...