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...parliamentary by-election last week, the question was submitted to the voters of Holborn and St. Pancras, a London constituency ranging from smart residential streets to slums. The Socialists won Holborn narrowly in 1951. Holborn, said Tory Chairman Lord Woolton, "is a sort of political barometer...
...fizz back in is effervescent Eric Hooper, 60. Trained as a botanist, Hooper "wandered about for a time," met Department Store Magnate Frederick James Marquis, now Lord Woolton, and went to work for him without knowing what business Woolton was in. "When I showed up and found it was a shop," says Hooper, "I was absolutely horrified...
...Schweppshire Lad. By 1940 Hooper had succeeded Woolton as managing director of Lewis's, Ltd., Woolton's chain of department stores in northern England. In 1942 Hooper quit. "It was very rejuvenating, I thought, to chuck it all in the bag at 50 and start something new," Hooper explains. The something new was to mix in Tory politics (at which he still worked closely with Woolton). He became public-relations director for the Ministry of Works, and later boss of Britain's veterans' resettlement program. He started his own firm of business consultants and, with Julian...
...Tories' convention (their first since 1937 as the government in power), there was no unruly wrangling and almost no disagreement. Party Boss Lord Woolton had provided a new slogan, "Winning Through," and a new symbol, a white lion rampant. But a party brochure picked the hen as its symbolic heroine and proclaimed, with a snort at Labor's noisy ranks: "The cock crows, but the hen delivers the goods." Which is the proper symbol for the Tories, asked the Manchester Guardian, lion rampant or hen couchant...
Elizabeth's Diary. The dead man was Sir Jack Drummond, 61, famed British biochemist, who had devised Britain's palate-poor but vitamin-rich World War II diet of cabbage salads, carrots, grey wheaten bread, potato pastry, and dried eggs. Scientific adviser to wartime Food Minister Lord Woolton he had developed an emergency meal for the bombed-out called blitz soup, and later a predigested food for starved survivors of Hitler's prison camps. A quiet, modest but convivial man, Sir Jack (he refused to be known by his correct Christian names: John Cecil) had once collaborated...