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...Smashed Wedgwood. Most new nations of Southeast Asia have enough trouble already with Chinese minorities and are dead-set against bringing in more refugees from the mainland. Hastening their extinction is the fact that many of the finer amahs are Cantonese women who traditionally belong to kongsis, or sisterhoods, that pledge them to spinsterhood. Amahs from Hainan, on the other hand, are usually married. Their husbands used to be admirable Crichtons of colonial society, and their daughters in time used to follow mother's footsteps across the gleaming floors. Though well-trained amahs nowadays earn...
...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...
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...