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...appointed Minister of Fuel and Power, was responsible for austerity fuel restrictions. Urging fewer baths to conserve coal, he joked: "Personally I've never had a great many hot baths myself. Anyway, what's underneath isn't seen by anybody." In 1950, he replaced ailing Sir Stafford Cripps as Chancellor of the Exchequer and immediately began slashing welfare expenses to pay for Britain's defense commitments. It was a decision which enraged Labor Firebrand Aneurin Bevan, then Minister of Health, and which began a titanic battle for power within the party...
...Awful. Among the books most bragged about are the most notable flops. Jean Stafford's Elephi is repellingly saccharine, worse even than Lesley Frost's (the poet's daughter) Really Not Really, in which life (really) and fantasy (not really) are carefully trussed into sweet little packages. Poets Ogden Nash and Phyllis McGinley, both of whom are capable of better things, have written companion books (Girls Are Silly and Boys Are Awful) that are silly and awful...
...Bill Stafford and Whitey Ford allowed four runs between them in nailing down the other two Yankee wins while teammates came up with crucial defensive plays. All three outfielders (Mantle, Maris and Tresh) made spectacular catches at critical moments, capped by Maris' run-preventing peg in the last inning of the seventh game...
...Juan Marichal (13-10), Billy O'Dell (19-14), and Billy Pierce (13-6) give them a great foursome of starters, and Stu Miller, Don Larsen, and Mike McCormick are more than adequate in relief. Against this lineup put Whitey Ford (17-8), Ralph Terry (23-12), Bill Stafford (14-9) and Bud Daley (5-3). Pretty obvious who's better. Marshall Bridges (3.17 ERA) is one of the best reliefers in the business, but he can't work seven straight games...
Died. Lord Nelson of Stafford, 74, British engineer and industrialist, a middle-class merchant's son (born George Horatio Nelson, no kin to the naval hero) who won his peerage by taking over the Depression-stalled English Electric Co. Ltd. in 1933, building it into a giant combine (assets: $250 million) producing everything from the Canberra jet bomber to the smallest vacuum tubes; in Stafford...