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...your article on Sir Alec Douglas-Home, you quote his brother as saying that under Home there will not be the nepotism of Macmillan's Cabinet. This seems hard to believe, since his very succession could be regarded as nepotism. Lady Macmillan and Sir Alec are cousins. Both are descended from the interesting-looking great-great-grandmother who is holding him in the picture accompanying the article. This ancestress, whom you left unidentified, was Louisa (1812-1905), daughter of the 6th Duke of Bedford and wife of the 1st Duke of Abercorn. If her contemporary, Queen Victoria...
...HACK by Wilfrid Sheed. 279 pages. Macmillan...
...Douglas-Home's shrewdest appointments, to the crucial job of party chairman, was Labor Minister John Hare, 52, a hardworking, true-blue Tory. As for Sir Alec's defeated rival for the prime ministership, Rab Butler, he had always wanted to be Foreign Secretary (Harold Macmillan denied him the job), and Rab made his debut last week at a Western European Union conference at The Hague with complete professional aplomb...
...John Barbirolli came west to accept the baton of the Houston Symphony Orchestra three years ago, Texans proudly proclaimed "The Grand Alliance." An emblem was struck for the orchestra depicting the Lone Star flag shoulder-to-shoulder with Sir John's Union Jack, and by happy coincidence Harold Macmillan himself said what was on everyone's lips: "Friendship between Texas and Great Britain is a most important thing." The orchestra celebrated its 50th year last week with a gala concert on the anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar, and Sir John felt properly Nelsonian: "This is the most...
...Testament was such a success, Phillips admits, that people pestered him to try the Old as well. Now Macmillan has published in the U.S. Phillips' first attempt to put the Hebrew books in English, a translation of Amos, Hosea, First Isaiah and Micah called Four Prophets...