Word: cockney
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...troubled by a persistent eczema. Intimates say that he looks fit enough, but is growing testy and has occasional periods of forgetfulness. As its next leader, the divided Labor Party, which went down to crushing defeat in this year's general election, has just about decided on Cockney Herbert Morrison, Attlee's longtime lieutenant and a seasoned party organizer. But Herb Morrison, at 67, is destined to be a stopgap party chief...
...polls, and three-fourths of the absentees, according to the experts, were people who usually vote Socialist. Even so, Labor got 46.3% of the less than 27,000,000 votes. It represents a strong sentiment in the nation, but it lacks leadership, and its leadership lacks a program. Cockney Herbert Morrison, 67, a cheerful and clever but not very profound man, is in line for Attlee's leadership; after him comes the aggressive and younger (49) Hugh Gaitskell, who is able but brittle, admired but not loved. Both are violently anti-Bevan...
...were chagrined and showed it. Eden's sudden fervor for a meeting of chiefs of government after months of discouraging Sir Winston Churchill from trying, grumbled Clem Attlee, was naught but "a deathbed repentance." "I do not believe the government have seized all the opportunities they might," said cockney Herbert Morrison, Labor's last Foreign Secretary, speaking at Eastleigh in Hampshire. "The Labor government would be more energetic. I mean, compare the mentality of the Tories and the Socialists. We're the lively lot, they're the slothful...
...kind of prosperous complacency. Calm Clement Attlee hastened about in a Humber Hawk chauffeured by his wife Violet, got an affectionate wel come everywhere. City-bred Herbert Mor rison, the party's No. 2, headed for Lancashire with his bride, a Lancashire lass, to try his cockney wit in a strategic voting area where he can now claim kinship. Rebel Rouser Aneurin Bevan careened through the industrial towns and docksides to roll his rich Welsh voice behind Bevanite candidates and Bevanite notions. In a manner reminiscent of days gone by, when he likened the Tories to "vermin...
...Earl Marshal of England and a steward of the Jockey Club, bought a copy. (He held it as if it were a week-old fish.) Workers' Weakness. Strike or no, the race-track elite could have done worse. Alf Rubin, 38, the Worker's wide-eyed little cockney handicapper, who prints his picks under the name of "Cayton," is the best in the business. Last year, a $2 bet on every one of his choices would have brought a profit of better than $160-a remarkable performance. Alf and his paper make a strange combination. Politics...