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Defending champion Ben Heckscher won the annual invitation intercollegiate squash tournament in New York on Dec. 24. He defeated Oliver Stafford of Williams, runner-up for the second straight year, 15-11, 17-14, 15-11, in the finals. Heckscher took the championship without the loss of a game...
...three arctic journeys, fashioned the taffeta U.S. flag that he planted in the ice at the top of the world in the first expedition to the pole in 1909, was delivered in 1893 of the famed "snow baby," the most northerly born white child on record (now Mrs. Edward Stafford of Washington...
...coal mines. (Urging fewer baths to conserve coal, he once joked: "Personally, I've never had a great many hot baths myself. Anyway, what's underneath isn't seen by anybody.") In 1950 he became Minister for Economic Affairs, then Chancellor of the Exchequer when ailing Stafford Cripps resigned. Forced to find the money for rearmament in his first budget, he courageously slashed expenses of the welfare state, imposed charges for spectacles and false teeth under the health service-the decision which led to the rebellion of Aneurin Bevan and launched their enmity. Bevan calls Gaitskell...
Died. Lieut. General (ret.) Stafford LeRoy ("Red") Irwin, 62. onetime (1950-52) commander of U.S. forces in Austria, commander of the 5th Division, which formed the southern arc of the pincer that captured the French city. Metz, in World War II; of a coronary occlusion; in Asheville...
...expect them to be popular"). Then Butler turned sarcastically to the charge of incompetence. "Socialists," he said, "are connoisseurs of incompetence. Let us look at some of the vintage years-1947, 1949 and 1951." With that, he neatly skewered the Labor Chancellors of those years: Hugh Dalton, Stafford Cripps and Hugh Gaitskell. "Each Labor Vintage Chancellor," Butler charged, "produced his own distinctive crisis with his own particular brand of incompetence...