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...standout. He is a "slightly out of step" member of England's most brilliant nonconformist family. His late father, Isaac, a deeply cultivated man who raised his family on Edmund Burke and amused himself by reading the Bible in Greek, was a Liberal Party member of Ramsay MacDonald's 1931 coalition Cabinet. His brother Dwight was a Liberal M.P., and another brother, Michael, is the enfant terrible of Labor's left wing. "We liked to work to the rule, 'Let not the left Foot know what the right Foot doeth,' " cracks Hugh. Yet the family...
Better Motivated. The organization got started in 1949 when Mrs. Ranald H. Macdonald, wife of a New York investment banker, and a small group of volunteers began recording textbooks for G.l.s blinded in World War II. The Korean war casualty list sharply increased the need for help, and in 1951 Recording for the Blind was incorporated. Now, at the New York headquarters and 15 other recording units from Miami to Los Angeles, teams of readers and monitors (who check the spoken word against the text) spend hours inside soundproof booths to build up a catalogue of titles that stands...
...favorite targets on the Opposition benches. Ramsay MacDonald was "the boneless wonder," Clement Attlee was "a sheep in sheep's clothing." When the postwar Labor government began measuring its home-building program in terms of "accommodation units," Churchill sang mockingly: "Accommodation unit, sweet accommodation unit, there's no place like accommodation unit...
...TWENTIETH CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). Dwight Macdonald, Maxwell Geismar, and John Houseman discuss the role of the artist during the '30s and show films of some of the '30s' greats: Carole Lombard, Thomas Wolfe, Sherwood Anderson, George Gershwin, etc. Repeat...
Blinded, unable to stop at 160 m.p.h., other drivers tried to pick their way through the fire and smoke. Most made it. Seven did not. In the darkness, Eddie Sachs slammed broadside into the wrecked Ford. Another car piled into the tangle, and ran right up MacDonald's back, Four more cars crunched into the wreckage. By some miracle, five of the drivers survived. Eddie Sachs was trapped in his cockpit; he was dead from the flames by the time rescuers reached him. MacDonald died two hours later in a hospital...