Word: descent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Born: July 28, 1904, in West Kirby, near Liverpool; his father was a prosperous doctor of Welsh descent...
Personal Life: An Anglican, he is married to tiny, dark, vivacious Dora Creditor Frost, a divorcee of Russian-Jewish descent. They live modestly in a twelve-room house in Hampstead, rent five rooms to a tenant. They have two teen-age daughters, one son by Mrs. Gaitskell's first marriage. Gaitskell has blue eyes and pale red hair, loves parties, likes to dance. "My dancing is notorious," he admits. In Parliament, he is sharp, often witty, but occasionally suffers from a tendency to lecture his colleagues like the economics professor he is. He disdains backroom political intriguing, is usually...
...world-forgotten person like me on your cover? It is not because I am interesting, but I have the idea it will be an attraction if you nominate an unknown world citizen who has had, until now, bad luck. I am Dutch, 51 years of age, of French descent...
...rough division of labor, South Africa's 1,100,000 whites of British descent run the country's commerce and industry (including the richest gold and diamond mines on earth), and leave its politics to the dominion's 1,500,000 largely rural Afrikaners. A consequence of this uneasy arrangement is that the most immoderate government in the British Commonwealth is fast driving the country toward race trouble and out of the empire...
...Race may mean little, because U.S. Negroes living well in Chicago have about the same rates as whites, though Africans whose ancestors escaped slavery in the U.S. are spared the disease. U.S. citizens of Italian descent approximate U.S. average rates, and not those of their second cousins in the old country...