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...United Press dispatch from Bonn said the Chancellor would probably visit the United States next month and may confer with President Eisenhower...
...political rule in the state's Duval County (TIME, Feb. 15, 1954); for editorial writing, the Detroit's Free Press's Royce Howes, for an editorial on the responsibility of labor and management in an unauthorized U.A.W. strike against Chrysler; for cartooning, St. Louis Post-Dispatch Cartoonist Daniel R. Fitzpatrick, for a cartoon urging the U.S. to stay clear of involvement in Indo-China; for photography, Los Angeles Times Staff Photographer John L. Gaunt Jr., for a picture titled "Tragedy in the Surf." Pulitzer awards in other fields: fiction, William Faulkner's A Fable; drama, Tennessee...
Budget Day is a solemn, expectant occasion in the House of Commons. At 3:35 p.m., Chancellor of the Exchequer Richard A. ("Rab") Butler stepped up to the dispatch box and opened the battered, red leather case in which every British Chancellor since Gladstone has carried the British budget. He was greeted with Tory cheers, for with a general election a month away (May 26), they had hopes of good electioneering news...
...dispatch from Washington, where the American Society of Newspaper Editors was in annual convention, notified the Kansas City Star and its readers that the Star's 68-year-old president, Roy A. Roberts, whose wife died three years ago, had become engaged to marry Mrs. Charles G. Ross, widow of the presidential press secretary to Harry Truman...
Eden stepped up to the dispatch box, flushed but serene. His first thought was for his old master, and he moved the House, as he rarely does, when he spoke of "my Right Honorable friend's courage," his magnanimity, his humor, and his "passion for the political life." "I enjoyed very much the Melbourne reflections," Eden added. "[Mr. Attlee] will not, however, have forgotten that Melbourne, although always talking of leaving office, contrived to stay there for a very long time indeed...