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...course nothing ever happens to a girl who can scrumptiously confide to her long-lost mate: "I want something I've been dreaming about for five years -a big fat double-dip chocolate soda." And in a courtroom climax, Doris demonstrates the All-America tactics that kept Eden intact: she crumples Connors with a swift jab to the midsection, slices one into the back of his neck, then whams her knee up for a jawbreaking finish. Adam is lucky to get away with his apple...
Died. Lord Evans, 60, Windsor court physician since 1949, a Welsh kidney specialist who signed the death certificate of King George VI, attended the births of Prince Charles, Prince Andrew and Princess Anne, in 1956 advised Prime Minister Anthony Eden to resign during the Suez crisis for reasons of health; of cancer; in London...
Another revelation: while he was still in Europe as commander of SHAPE, British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden "expressed the hope that [if I should be elected] I might appoint someone other than Dulles" as U.S. Secretary of State. "I made no reply," he writes, "except to say that I knew of no other American so well qualified as Foster to take over the duties of that particular office...
RICHARD AUSTEN BUTLER, a parliamentary pundit once observed, "always looks as if he will be the next Prime Minister-until it seems the throne may actually be vacant." Butler has been deputy to all three postwar Tory Prime Ministers-Winston Churchill, Anthony Eden and Harold Macmillan -and after the 1956 Suez debacle had every expectation of succeeding Eden at 10 Downing Street. When the party picked Macmillan instead, "Rab" Butler, though bitterly humiliated, said bravely: "Well, it is something to have been almost Prime Minister...
...Member of Parliament for 34 of his 60 years, Butler is a dedicated organization man who nonetheless takes irreverent delight in the impish indiscretion and bland ambivalence. When Eden's ditherings with economic and colonial problems stirred angry criticism in 1956, it was Butler who declared slyly: "He is the best Prime Minister we have." He once said that Britain's sacrosanct civil service is "a bit like a Rolls-Royce-you know it's the best machine in the world, but you're not quite sure what to do with it." His sallies have earned...