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Although his wife complained during the career-shattering crisis of 1956 that the Suez Canal seemed to cascade through their Downing Street drawing room, Sir Anthony Eden, 64, renewed by his recent peerage (TIME, July 14), was no longer afraid to go near the water. Honoring the bard-blessed stream that runs through his longtime Warwickshire constituency, the ex-Prime Minister selected "Earl of Avon" as his new title. To his son Nicholas, 30, will go a courtesy designation. Viscount of Royal Leamington Spa, to commemorate a last resort that has inspired more dowagers than iambs...
...Scientist department that the film excels. Joan Fontaine plays a World-Renowned Psychiatrist with fierce regard for tradition: she is snappish and mean to Walter Pidgeon, the World's Greatest Scientist right up to the moment she is eaten by the shark. Balance is provided by blonde Barbara Eden, as cute a canape as ever broke a giant squid's heart. Tradition must sometimes be broken if an art form is to grow: she plays Pidgeon's secretary, not his daughter. Her function is to proceed about the submarine at canter, bearing messages, coffee and surcease from...
...Eden's health has mended since, along with the other scars of Suez. Retiring to his country house in pastoral Wilthsare he buried himself in his memors* and, say intimates, began to feel that thereby he deepened his insight on many issues (but not, his memoirs suggest, on Suez). Hankering for a platform again, Eden, now 64, last week finally accepted his earldom from Queen Elizabeth...
...Eden picked a critical time for his return to public life. In coming months Britain must reach decisions on two troublous issues: the possibility of war over Berlin and the complex problem of membership in Europe's Common Market (TIME, July 7). Even his sharpest critics concede that Eden has unsurpassed firsthand knowledge of foreign policy over three decades. Eden's plans for German reunification still influence Foreign Office policymakers, and Macmillan occasionally drops in on Eden at his country home to seek his views. The two do not always agree-last month, in his first major speech...
Diehard romantics declare that Eden's earldom has a far more intriguing explanation. Recalling that handsome, 30-year-old Nicholas Eden, Sir Anthony's son-about-town, has frequently been seen with Princess Alexandra of late, they insist that Father took the title to bolster young Eden's prospect of a royal marriage...