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Announcement of former Prime Minister Clement Attlee's dissolution honors list included an earldom for Viscount Jowitt, the Labor government's Lord Chancellor; a Companionship of Honor for its Foreign Secretary Herbert Morrison; a baronage for David Kirkwood, thistly Scottish labor leader; and a knighthood for Dr. Walter Fergusson Hannay, the surgeon who cleared up Attlee's foot eczema and his duodenal ulcer...
...accordance with these beliefs, he has set up a $1,000,000 fellowship program to give young scholars in the humanities a chance they rarely get today. For the university, he has picked his appointments well (among them: Novelist Robert Penn Warren, Chemist John G. Kirkwood, Political Scientist James W. Fesler). He has even reached down to the secondary schools, which he regards as the weakest link in the educational chain. His M.A. for teachers is an attempt to give schoolmen courses-not just in pedagogy, of which they often have too much, but also in the stuff and substance...
That afternoon the M.P.s re-elected their Speaker, Colonel Clifton Brown. He sat quietly on his bench awaiting the traditional byplay. Without a word, the Clerk of the House signaled to Laborite David Kirkwood. In a warmhearted speech, Socialist Kirkwood proposed Tory Brown as Speaker...
...Kirkwood advanced toward...
Brown put up the traditional show of reluctance to accept the highest honor that can be paid to a commoner. First he smilingly shook his fist in Kirkwood's face, then allowed himself to be dragged reluctantly to the Speaker's dais. Prime Minister Clement Attlee warned Brown that the parliamentary weather might be "stormy with fair intervals," or "unsettled...