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...this complacent state, they put down first at Moscow en route to Peking. Heading the pack was former Prime Minister Clement Attlee, accompanied by Nye Bevan, Labor Party Secretary Morgan Phillips, Labor Chairman Wilfred Burke, onetime Minister of National Insurance Edith Summerskill and Trade Union Leaders Harry Earnshaw, Sam Watson and Harry Franklin. Moscow's richest and reddest carpets were rolled out. A flecon of Russia's finest perfume, "The Spirit of the Red Army," was waiting in her hotel room to greet Dr. Summerskill, the only woman in the party. Soviet Premier Georgy Malenkov even went...
...visitors were shipped out to a spacious dacha once occupied by Maxim Gorky, to be wined and dined by the Kremlin's biggest wigs. Clad in gleaming white, Premier Malenkov himself strode to the garden to pick a bouquet of purple phlox and red gladioli for Dr. Edith. Some time later he soothed her feminist ardor with the assurance that women in the field of education were "too often overmodest." So many happy vodka toasts were drunk that night that even teetotaling Harry Earnshaw lost count over endless glasses of lemonade...
Except for her nationality, Edith Maria Binde had seemed at first to be a perfectly normal student at the University of Illinois. A pert, handsome brunette of 19, she graduated from a typical German secondary school in Lichterfelde, entered Illinois on a foreign-student scholarship last September. But by last week, the university had decided that Edith was not really normal at all: she was nothing less than a female version of the fabulous Mr. Belvedere...
...When Edith hit Urbana last fall, she faced the usual requirement of 120 semester hours to get her degree. But her training at the Goethe Schule was so good that she was able to lop off 18 hours for her English, Russian and Latin, nine hours for her mathematics, twelve for history, four for geography, 18 for German. She added eight more by taking an advanced examination in Russian. After that, she was ready to tackle the remaining 51. The major she picked: economics...
...long prayer on Sunday mornings. Teddy played bear with Baby Quentin and assorted small fry, pouncing on them with such energy "that he tore all the gathers out of [one little girl's] frock and both buttonholes out of her petticoat." When Teddy became too violently playful, wife Edith, no "Patient Griselda," intervened. Edith was a childhood friend of Teddy's and a lifelong love. Her standards were Victorian, but she knew the business of being mother and running a household, and when she spoke up, Teddy knew the moment for silence had come...