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...CATHERINE WHEEL (281 pp.)-Jean Stafford-Harcourt, Brace...
...Chancellor of Bristol University, Winston Churchill awarded honorary doctorates to nine "Men of Ability," including former Socialist Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Stafford Cripps. Still not up to traveling the 30 miles of winter roads, Cripps received his degree in absentia. Following the Bristol tradition of lightsome eulogies, a university Latin professor said of Sir Stafford: "His favorite drink is water; his favorite food, a scraped carrot. While in politics he is left of the left, in matters of right and wrong he is inclined to be right . . . He is gifted with a winning voice which can make the warnings...
Shrimp Boats (Jo Stafford; Columbia). A folk song about Louisiana fishermen's wives awaiting the tide, the shrimp catch and their husbands, so they can all have a party. Jo Stafford gives it atmosphere and bounce...
...bank tightened the money supply, and cut down purchasing power by the same measures it instituted last week. But after sterling's fall, the money power passed to the Treasury. The bank was compelled to buy all government securities at pegged rates from the market. In 1947, Sir Stafford Cripps relieved the bank of the obligation to buy long-term bonds at pegged prices. But until last week, the Old Lady still had to go on buying short-term bills...
...learn that false teeth and free specs aren't jokes to people grateful for them), but the government lived beyond its means. Even the doctrinaires learned that nationalization-cures nothing. The best of Labor's leaders died (like Ernie Bevin). wore themselves out (like Sir Stafford Cripps). or proved inadequate forthe highest tasks (like Herbert Morrison at the Foreign Office). Clement Attlee. conscientious and Christian, carried on-not an imposing figure. but a decent one. He was badgered by Tories in front of him, by crises and muddle around him, and by Aneurin Bevan on his flank...