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Future Discovered. Hugh Todd Naylor Gaitskell joined the Labor Party from no sense of downtrodden necessity. Son of a British civil servant in India, he was educated at Winchester and Oxford's New College, did not have his smoldering sense of social justice fully kindled until the general strike of 1926. To an aunt who offered to subsidize an army career, he replied: "My future belongs to the working class." After graduation from Oxford, Gaitskell lectured among coal miners in depressed areas, became an economics don at London University. During the war, he joined the civil service...
Like the heroine of Charlotte Brontë's novel, Bergman's heroine is a shy young servant (Mai Zetterling) who falls in love with her master (Birger Malmsten). Like the hero of the novel, the master is an arrogant and atrabilious young bourgeois who hammers moodily on a grand piano and one day is stricken blind. Bitter in his affliction, he scorns her love. "Dare I aspire," he sneers, "to marry the housemaid?" Hurt to the heart, she leaves, and he is left to suffer at life's hands what she has suffered at his, to take...
Rejected by the conservatory where he hoped to study, he is forced to work at a low job tickling the ivories in a busy beanery. The servant rises as the master falls: she goes to college and prepares to be a teacher. When they meet again, he is forced to swallow his pride and dissemble his heartburn. With humble irony he asks himself: "Dare a poor blind honky-tonk pianist aspire to marry a beautiful college girl...
...colonial civil servant, Gaitskell decided early that "my future is with the working classes." He graduated from Oxford with honors in philosophy, politics, and economics, and began touring England's mine fields, lecturing on socialism. In 1934, he went to Vienna on a Rockefeller scholarship...
Eighteen months ago, when he moved in as president of KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, diminutive (5 ft. 3 in.) Ernst Hans van der Beugel, 44, looked like a bright hope. A brilliant ex-civil servant who had held the top career post in the Dutch Foreign Office, he appeared to have both the drive and diplomacy to steer the world's fourth-largest international airline deftly through the financial perils of the jet age. Last week, with an abruptness that stunned the aviation industry, Van der Beugel (pronounced van dare Bur-gel) resigned his job and checked into...