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...been making more headlines than anyone else in Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's government is a most unlikely Tory up from the working class, and his achievement has come in an odd field for a Cabinet Minister. The field: traffic...
...heart of London is suffering from traffic thrombosis," booms Britain's bustling Transport Minister Ernest Marples, 52. Since Macmillan gave him the tough job eleven weeks ago of easing the prosperous crush of new cars in Britain's tight little streets, Minister Marples has been brewing dramatic anticoagulants for old London's clotted arteries...
After he won a House of Commons seat in 1945, some Tory bluebloods sniffed at "that rather revolting little man with the spotted bow tie who is always getting himself in the newspaper diary paragraphs." But when Harold Macmillan as Housing Minister fell heir to the almost impossible job of keeping the Tory campaign pledge to build 300,000 houses in a year, he shrewdly selected energetic Ernie as his No. 2. It was a strange team, but they...
Shunted to a lowly post when Eden succeeded Churchill, Marples came back when Macmillan became Prime Minister and appointed him Postmaster-General. Marples moved right in again, helped sort letters, traveled on all-night mail trains, walked the rounds with letter carriers, painted and rebuilt sagging post offices, revamped the telephone system and cut long-distance rates. Then he became Transport Minister, in charge of the nation's road, rail and sea services...
MURDER IN BLACK LETTER, by Poul Anderson (182 pp.; Macmillan; $3.50) presents an amateur sleuth who is a professor of Renaissance literature, a judo expert, and a nervous wreck. Black depression over the death years before of his sister overtakes him at odd moments, and, as one character says in admiration, "every couple of years Kintyre spends a few days in hell." But when a young graduate student is tortured and killed just before publishing a thesis on witches in 14th century Italy, Kintyre shakes his gloom and sniffs after the killers. Author Anderson creates a spooky San Francisco cityscape...