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Last week Britain gratefully received Labor's choice. "Aneurin Bevan is a rousing one-man band," wrote the Laborite Daily Mirror. "But the leader of a party must be the conductor of a massive orchestra." From the far Tory right came an echoing chorus. Gaitskell, wrote Journalist Randolph Churchill (see PRESS), is "a first-class politician of patriotism and ambition. He has political guts, and merit. Let us salute...
Randolph's one-man campaign is a flagrant breach in the conspiracy of courtesy that by long tradition keeps Fleet Street mum about its own foibles. "It is a curious thing," he has written, "that wealthy men who own papers set themselves up to criticize every kind of institution, but they themselves are the one institution which is totally immune from criticism . . . Dog don't eat dog. That is one of the reasons why some of the London press...
Strong Light. The plain life expresses some remarkably solid virtues. She burns continuously with what a friend calls "unmitigated sincerity." She loves or she hates; she gives everything or nothing. She is a one-man woman with a one-track mind. The theater is her religion and she serves it like a vestal. She has almost no material concerns. "She would work 20 hours a day for $20 a week if I didn't watch out," her husband says. It is hard for her to tell a lie, and she blazes in defense of the truth as she sees...
...Million Windshields. Din Land firmly believes that creative invention is a "one-man operation," until he is convinced a new product is nearly ready to market. Then his team moves in. One of biggest potential developments: a sys tem of polarized auto windshields and leadlight lenses that, in combination, take the glare out of night driving. One big obstacle: since the super-brilliant lights used in the Polaroid system would require new headlight and windshield glass for all the 60 million-odd cars...
Since then University artists have occasionally given visible signs of their activity. A few have been fortunate enough to arrange displays in local galleries. But most are not sufficiently advanced to command one-man showing. Last year, however, an exhibit of paintings by several graduate students was held in Lamont Library. Welcome as this exhibition was, it had the major shortcomings of not including undergraduate works and of excluding women visitors, because of a Lamont regulation...