Word: wedgwood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more than three generations of housewives around the world, the name Rosenthal meant German china with rococo curlicues and baroque designs. Nowadays, would-be buyers do a double take over the clean, contemporary simplicity of Rosenthal porcelain, which has taken the play away from Wedgwood to become the largest-selling quality china imported into the U.S. from Europe. Rosenthal plans to set up its own self-contained china units at stores throughout the U.S., recently opened one at Manhattan's Altman's and plans to open nine more before year...
...Wedgy" Benn. then 35. refused to become Lord Stansgate and take his seat in the House of Lords, the largely ceremonial upper house that has been called "the last infirmary of noble minds." Instead, Mister Wedgwood Benn, as he insisted on calling himself, ran for re-election from Bristol South-East, and easily won. But the High Court ruled that a peer's male heir, ''lawfully begotten," may not renounce his title. Protesting that he was thus ''the victim of my father's virtue." "the Reluctant Peer'' was forced to stand aside...
Last week, as a direct result of Wedgwood Benn's battle to remain a commoner, a joint parliamentary committee proposed new rules for the Lords. Its key recommendation: hereditary peers should henceforth be allowed to surrender their titles for life and run for Commons if they wish. The change seems almost certain to pass into law. For though most Tories are reluctant to adopt a measure that might make the Lords even more ineffectual than at present, they fear that unless it is reformed, a future socialist government may abolish the Lords altogether on the ground that an upper...
Most of them are bored by political debate and seldom show up. On the other hand, several able, politically-minded aristocrats who refuse to sit in the Lords have joined Wedgwood Benn's boycott with the express aim of changing the system. Among them: Lord Hinchingbrooke, a lively Tory rebel who lost his Commons seat this year when he became the tenth Earl of Sandwich, and Lord Altrincham, a trenchant anti-Establishment columnist for the Liberal Manchester Guardian...
...case, the changes proposed last week impressed most Britons as a necessary, if overdue, step toward more thoroughgoing reform of "the lethal chamber," as Liberal Prime Minister Herbert Asquith called it in 1911. Displaced M.P. Wedgwood Benn, who has eked out a living as a free-lance writer for the past year, called the committee report "a victory for common sense." When the law is changed, he vowed, "I shall be queuing up with my thermos the moment the doors open...