Word: lennox
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chancellor of the Exchequer Rab Butler, Churchill carefully balanced the appointment by making one of Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden's proteges Colonial Minister: Henry Hopkinson, a handsome ex-Foreign Office man with an American wife. To complete the reshuffle, Churchill sent the outgoing Colonial Minister, Right-Winger Alan Lennox Boyd, to the Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation, to replace John Maclay, who resigned after being sent to a sickbed by a job that was too much...
Hero Paul Lennox is strong on good works and good looks, A dynamic young fellow, he is modern enough to insist that a gymnasium and round-table marriage counseling are necessary supplements to his central message of God's grace. Yet Paul is beset by a corroding sense of failure. He feuds with an important parishioner, can't wholeheartedly accept the girl he loves, fails miserably as an example to his heavy-drinking young half brother. It takes most of the book and a crippling attack of polio to make Paul understand his failure in life...