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...Butler had an unpleasant duty to perform. On the first day of a new parliamentary session, he had to submit a supplementary "crisis" budget which hustled out a summer of prosperity and ushered in a winter of what looked dismayingly like oldtime austerity, as practiced by Sir Stafford Cripps. Britain is not bust but suffering from too much boom, yet Butler's nostrums bore the same cramping old labels (Higher Taxes, Lower Consumption) as those prescribed by Old Austerity himself...
...flatlands, Herbert Morrison, campaigning with his tour-tired bride of four months, accused the Tories of raising the cost of living 13% since taking office, and caustically read off comparative 1951 and 1955 prices for market-basket items. "To the housewives who needed pots and pans [the late Sir Stafford] Cripps and I had to say, 'Sorry, girls,' because of the foreign demand...
Varsity heavies: Nick Platt, stroke Mike Metealf, seven; Ted McCagg, six; Captain Dick Darrell, five; Carter Harrison, four; Stafford Morss, three; Randy Harrison, two; Sam Wolcott, bow; Bob McLaughlin, coxswain...
...Variety, which has launched a campaign to clean them up). Result: a welter of hits in the r.-and-b. idiom (including five of the first eight top tunes). Sample hits: Sincerely (McGuire Sisters; Coral), Tweedlee Dee (Georgia Gibbs; Mercury), Earth Angel (CrewCuts, Mercury). Even such stars as Jo Stafford (I Got a Sweetie; Columbia) and Eddie Fisher (Just One More Time; Victor) are showing some rock-'n'-roll influence...
...Bevan alone had publicly taunted Attlee on Labor's willingness to use the H-bomb. Of course, Nye had defied the leadership many times before and got away with it (exception: when he was expelled from the party for eight months in 1939, together with the late Sir Stafford Cripps, for seeking a "united front" with the British Communists). But now patience was exhausted. "He is his own worst enemy," admitted Bevan's camp follower, Dick Grossman, unwilling this time to go along with the boss. "This is the moment for a complete surgical operation," said one right...