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...made chairman of the Labor Party. Three others were hard-knuckled unionists: knobby Harry Earnshaw of the textile workers, big, handsome Harry Franklin of the railwaymen, shrewd, balding Sam Watson, a longtime battler of Communists in Durham's "Little Moscow" coal fields. And there was tall, leggy Dr. Edith Summerskill, onetime Minister of National Insurance and a militant feminist, who has terrified British males of all political hues by demanding that husbands pay their wives wages...
...Franklin. Georgy Malenkov himself invited them out to a handsome country dacha, and after picking a bunch of phlox and gladioli for Dr. Summerskill, told her gallantly: "What has been wrong too often in the world of education is that men have been too impertinent and women overmodest." Dr. Edith agreed...
...them in Hong Kong, the Laborites were considerably less gracious. "Any statement on your tour?" one of the newsmen asked Attlee, but before the former Prime Minister could even remove his pipe, Morgan Phillips, Labor Secretary and party chaperon, snapped, "No." Only Trade Union Leader Harry Franklin and Dr. Edith Summerskill seemed disposed to chat, the one about houseflies ("Why, I've seen more flies right here than I saw in all my time in China"), the other about the "increased freedom in the field of love" now enjoyed by Chinese women. Dr. Summerskill had also been impressed with...
Instead of taking the usual workload of 34 hours in her first two semesters, Edith upped the ante to 40. By June, she still had eleven credits left to go, but she decided to toss these off in one fell swoop during the summer. This week, when the university announced that she would get her bachelor's degree after less than a year, her average stands at 4.25 out of a possible 5, i.e., almost...
...grind, then how had she managed? Says Edith hesitantly: "I guess the general level is a little more advanced in Germany. The fact that I could get a degree in such a short time tells pretty well that they do ask for a little more in high school, I think...