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...sleeve, said he felt that the welcome had been very warm, expressed understanding about the bad weather. And in the splendid patina of the Quirinale, the party's spirits picked up. That afternoon Ike found time for a nap. His son Major John and Daughter-in-Law Barbara explored the sprawling, centuries-old palace ("This is living," said Major John). That evening, after a talk with Gronchi, Ike walked from his quarters in the Quirinale to another apartment to be guest of honor at a glittering state banquet for 70. Next came a reception that spread through a dozen...
Silent Night, Lonely Night (by Robert Anderson) tells of two people in a New England inn on Christmas Eve. Strangers in adjacent rooms-Barbara Bel Geddes has a son in a prep-school infirmary near by, Henry Fonda a wife in a mental sanitarium up the hill-they come together out of loneliness, are at first trivially autobiographical, then more and more confidingly so. They have a drink with newlyweds, look back on marriage that has come to grief, resist pity and show twinges of self-pity, talk of love and resist sex. The woman, it turns...
Bygone Banners. Fiery Party Chairman Barbara Castle had opened the meeting with an old-style appeal for public ownership as Labor's great cause. "It's no use waving the banners of a bygone age," replied Gaitskell. "Nationalization, on balance, lost us votes...
...Aneurin Bevan-with whom Gaitskell had wrangled long hours in his Opposition leader's room behind the Speaker's chair at the House of Commons -rose to deliver a speech of flash and fire that paid affable tribute to Gaitskell but straddled the views of Gaitskell and Barbara Castle. Nye Bevan had his own view of the proper socialist future: "In a modern society it is impossible to get rational order by leaving things to private economic adventure. Because I am a socialist, I believe in national ownership. I believe in what Hugh Gaitskell said yesterday, because...
...them: a walker who drank 16 pt. of milk en route; a 14-year-old schoolboy; two bowler-hatted, brief-cased, brolly-toting civil servants from Bath. By week's end an R.A.F. technician had got the time down to less than 28 hr. A Russian-born doctor, Barbara Moore, 56, also claimed to have made the trip in under 28 hr., shod in gunny sacks, eating watercress and honey, and carrying her pet tortoise, Fangio by name, who slept on a hot-water bottle. Since no one paced her, her time was not recognized. Undaunted, Vegetarian Moore snorted...