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During the last general election, Laski renewed his efforts for the Laborites. Two days before the election, Laski left his home, where he had been bedded with pneumonia, to speak in the constituency of North Hammersmith. He stood on the speaker's platform swaying, pale and weak. Since then he had been ill. One day last week his left lung collapsed and he was taken to the hospital. Next day, at 56, Harold Laski was dead. He once told a biographer: "I really don't think there is anything to say about me except that I am honest...
...Westminster Abbey for a publicity gag. Several weeks ago the enterprising peer titillated the town again and got his latest business off to a good start by sending out invitations that read: "The Marquess of Milford Haven invites your company at the opening of a new launderette in Hammersmith." He avoided the ever-present snares of bachelordom on both sides of the Atlantic. "I steered clear of dowagers who might have had ideas," he explains...
...year later, said Haigh, "I took . . . the father and mother to the same basement, disposing of them in the same way." In February 1948 he killed the Hendersons, an unidentified woman from Hammersmith, a young man in Kensington and a girl "who said her name was Mary...
...fondest hopes: they had chalked up a net gain of 829 seats, while Labor had lost 633. The Tory tide swallowed Wandsworth, Ernie Bevin's home borough, and Herbert Morrison's own stamping grounds of Lewisham. The Conservatives registered big gains in London's working-class Hammersmith and Holborn districts. Moaned one Labor official: "It turns our stomach...
...planning their strategy, the Tory chieftains had decided to abandon all constructive suggestion and concentrate on criticism. In Hammersmith, all the fine new Tory "charters" painstakingly formulated over the last year and a half were tacitly shelved while Tory spokesmen heaped invective on Labor's extravagance, the food shortage, the housing shortage and the high cost of living. At Labor rallies, Tory hecklers shouted "onions, snoek and eggs"-all painful items in rationed Britain. But many a Hammersmith voter could recall days when there was food aplenty and no money...