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...England is to have an Eden as its next Prime Minister, it would probably fare better with Nephew John than with Uncle Anthony...
...Green Parrot. In A Simple Heart, Flaubert takes a plain-as-rain spinster housemaid and erodes her placid life with tragedies. From dawn to dusk, Felicité slaves for the Aubain family, all of whom take her toil for granted. She loves her young nephew like a son, but he dies at sea. Desolate, she clings to the delicate Aubain daughter only to see the girl die of TB. Felicité swaddles her grief in piety and finds a pet in a green parrot. After a few years the parrot dies too, and Felicité has it stuffed. Time robs...
Head Winds. Almost the lone voice of dissent came from a surprising source: John Eden, 28-year-old nephew of Anthony himself, who rose timidly to make his maiden speech. Said nephew John: "I do not believe that the Communist powers of either Russia or China have shown a very great or genuine change of heart . . . One by one, the innocent countries are being eaten up by the Soviet walrus and the Chinese carpenter. We must stop this feast before there is nothing left." Only powerful, determined and united opposition, said John Eden, will make them change their plans...
Uncle Anthony, in a graceful little speech in comment, was indulgent with nephew John's maiden effort, but added banteringly: "At the same time, I cannot tell him that I enjoyed his speech." Analyzing the House's debate, Anthony Eden declared-accurately-that it "has not really been a debate at all but an expression of a national feeling." Outside the House of Commons, only a few voices were raised to dispute that national feeling. Snapped the Daily Express: "Whatever gains may have been made in moving closer towards China have been more than compensated by damage...
actresses ("all look alike . . . wiggling their rear ends"), television ("worse than the movies"), movies ("brutality, lust, sex and suffering"), and Americans in general ("peasant stock"). With that off his mind, Brando got back into character: "Actually, I don't give a damn." Jaime Ortiz Patino, 25, nephew of Bolivia's gold-laden tin magnate, reported to Roman police that he is minus one bride. The-vanished one: Joanne Connelly Sweeny Patino, 23, Manhattan's "most beautiful debutante" of 1948, divorced last November by Britain's former Amateur Golf Champion Robert Sweeny, who named fast-moving Dominican...