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Married. Marriner S. Eccles, 61, Utah banker and sound-currency chairman of the Federal Reserve System's board of governors from 1936 until President Truman demoted him in 1948, and one of the architects of New Deal finance; and Mrs. Sara Madison Classic, 43, of Chevy Chase, Md.; both...
The young English Tory, David Eccles, may, as TIME [Oct. 22] says, have "a gift for the happy phrase," but the particular phrase* you quote shows not a gift but a tendency to borrow.
You will notice how much pithier and indeed how much more apt Housman's original is than Mr. Eccles' imitation.
*Said Eccles: "I have been against the wage freeze. Bad chancellors resort to it as drunkards cling to lampposts, not to light themselves on their way but to conceal their own instability."
For the Tory Party's "Young Turks," Churchill had a handful of lesser, though worthy, plums. The best: John Selwyn Lloyd, 47, a World War II brigadier who won the U.S. Legion of Merit, was made right bower to Anthony Eden with the title "Minister of State, Foreign Office...