Word: dunglass
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...high, white hospital bed. Harold Macmillan, recuperating from his prostate operation and cranked up to a sitting position, wore blue and white pajamas. In such unlikely surroundings Elizabeth received Macmillan's even more unlikely nomination for Prime Minister: Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, Earl of Home, Baron Home, Baron Dunglass and Baron Douglas...
...knits his socks, often cooks his breakfast. She is also an accomplished hostess, and confesses: "I love politics, because we are not the worrying kind. My husband is even more of an unworrier than I am." The Homes have three grown daughters and a son, 19-year-old Lord Dunglass, who will eventually inherit his father's suspended titles-unless he too wants to be Prime Minister...
Jean Burton, who has made eccentrics her specialty (Elisabet Ney, TIME, April 5, 1943; Sir Richard Burton's Wife, TIME, June 23, 1941), has written a lucid, witty biography of the most successful, most enigmatic of these 19th-Century mediums. Daniel Dunglass Home was born in a small Highland village. His father was the illegitimate son of the tenth Earl of Home. His mother specialized in prognosticating the deaths of her best friends. In 1840 the Home family emigrated to the U.S., leaving Daniel in the care of his aunt, Mary Cook. When he was nine, Daniel...
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