Word: staffords
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...week the old minstrel's old song, prettied up and cut in half, was in fifth place on the hit parade. A quartet called the Weavers, recording (for Decca) with Gordon Jenkins' band, had used it as a filler to back Tzena, Tzena. Helped along by Jo Stafford, Frankie Sinatra, et al., the filler had just about caught up with third-place Tzena...
...criticized Bevin for "having his unfortunate illness treated at two places outside the National Health Service." It added accusingly: "He is not the only person prominent in the Labor movement who has gone outside the National Health Service." This was an unkind cut too. It was aimed at Sir Stafford Cripps, who went to a Swiss vegetarian clinic last year to soothe his troubled stomach...
...STAFFORD WHITBY...
...Commons, Britain's Sir Stafford Cripps recalled one of his more momentous decisions: "On one occasion Mr. [Winston] Churchill offered to become a Socialist if I would drink a bottle of champagne." Teetotaler Cripps declined...
...last week, both fears had been allayed. For months, bright Hugh Gaitskell, Britain's Minister of State for Economic Affairs, had carried on delicate negotiations. Observers guessed that Gaitskell was inching toward agreement with the continental nations when his mentor, Sir Stafford Cripps, gradually withdrew from the talks and went off on a vacation. Gaitskell and his OEEC colleagues finally worked out a scheme to save Britain from an excessive dollar drain. It agreed to admit not merely Britain but the entire sterling area to EPU, and to provide special safeguards against a run on Britain's dollar...