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Died. Admiral Sir Walter Henry Cowan, 84, Commander (1917-20) of the Grand Fleet's 1st Light Cruiser Squadron, Naval Aide-de-Camp (1930-31) to George V; of pneumonia; in Leamington, England...
...Conservative mainstays - Chancellor of the Exchequer "Rab" Butler, Foreign Secretary Harold Macmillan, La bor Minister Sir Walter Monckton - returned, most of them with bigger pluralities. Eden himself carried his Warwick and Leamington constituency by 3,663 votes more than he had in 1951. "Thank you so much," said the Prime Minister, in clipped Oxford accent, to droves of well-wishers at the Shire Hall...
...opportunity. "Nothing is more displaced than the Socialist suggestion that we have been dilatory in our approach to Russia," he said. "I have talked across the table with the Russians for many years, probably more than any other man living," said Eden in his home constituency of Warwick and Leamington.* The response emboldened the man who had waited so long and now stood, at last, in the sun. "You must decide on May 26," he said at Reading of the coming Big Four meeting, "whether you want me to go or somebody else.'' ''You. you!" some...
From Oxford, Eden soon moved to the "safe" Tory seat of Warwick and Leamington. He won it handily and has held it ever since, making his campaign headquarters in famed old Warwick Castle. The dignity, dullness and mastery of the commonplace that Britons expect of their M.P.s came to him naturally; soon he was possessed of that mysterious but vital quality which M.P.s call "a sense of the House...
Divorced. Randolph Adolphus ("Randy") Turpin, 25, Britain's contender for the world middleweight championship; by Mary Theresa Turpin, 26; after six years of marriage, one son; in Leamington, England...