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...Ministry of Health for five years, became Minister of Labor, in charge of mobilization of manpower. He replaced bumbling George Isaacs, who was shifted to the Ministry of Pensions, with a $5,600 salary cut and loss of cabinet rank. Former Minister of Pensions Hilary Marquand, a little-known, dependable public servant and former economics professor, took over Bevan's Health Ministry. Housing, which had been under the Health Minister's jurisdiction, was shifted to Hugh Dalton, who became Minister of Local Government and Planning...
Novelist John Marquand once wished "that one's own children behaved as sensibly and nicely...
...very much of his subject, Author Mergendahl deserves a mild cheer for having tried, at least, to write about his Dons and Shelleys, people who are at least as representative of current U.S. life as anybody else, and currently least represented in U.S. fiction. The Beacon Hill set has Marquand, the Chicago slums have Farrell, the Mississippi farmers have Faulkner and the Okies have, or used to have, Steinbeck. In faithful seriousness or satiric affection, lower-income suburbia deserves a look...
When Novelist J. P. Marquand's late George Apley traveled abroad for the first time, he was agreeably surprised to find that parts of Europe were just like New England, only not so nice. And he met so many Bostonians in his Paris hotel that it was just like being at home again. Last week, Conrad Hilton, the world's No. 1 hotelman, made sure that other Americans would henceforth be able to share George Apley's pleasure. He set out to build a chain of foreign hotels just like those in the U.S., so that American...
Whether you like it or not, as Marquand points out, you will be tarred with the brush of Harvard all your life...