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Vice President Alben W. Barkley is 73 years old. In five days last week, Barkley, stumping for the Democratic ticket in a Kentucky state election, made speeches at Ashland, Pikesville, Cynthiana, Covington, Glasgow, Scottsville, Bowling Green, Elizabethtown, Henderson, Madisonville, Princeton and Hopkinsville. Home in Paducah a day before the election, the Veep made a dozen more speeches in neighboring towns. After the campaign was over, this week he was slated to speak at Cincinnati and Columbus before whipping out to the West Coast for seven speeches in seven days...
...find the Tory government up to its neck in trouble before too long. "They'll begin to get the blame for unavoidable discomforts, the same as we did," said one. "A lot of people who are expecting them to work miracles will be sadly disappointed. Take that Glasgow woman on the BBC the other night. She planned to buy a cooker, she said, but when the election was announced she decided to wait till the Tories brought the prices down...
Architect Spence, 44, "nearly passed out" when he heard his design had been chosen. He had worked on it after hours, for relaxation from his chores as designer of the Festival of Britain's Sea & Ships Building and Glasgow University's new atomic-research laboratory. In his design he conscientiously followed all the requirements set down by the Bishop of Coventry and his advisers, incorporated the spire of the old cathedral as an important part. He also added a few ideas of his own, e.g., a chapel in the form of a crusader's tent, zigzagging walls...
...Festival of Britain" is several things. This month in London it refers to the South Bank exhibition of British achievement. Officially, it refers, as well, to other exhibits in London, special exhibits in Glasgow and Cardiff, and a busy summer schedule of music, drama, and other artistic sprees. It even includes a festival ship which will carry the Festival to the seaside unable to do much on their...
...canceled an invitation to Bevan to address their annual conference. A statement on behalf of 110,000 County Durham miners declared Bevan's resignation "unwarranted." Food Minister Maurice Webb echoed: "We really cannot have Mr. Bevan's brilliant kind of buccaneering." Hugh Gaitskell, in a speech at Glasgow, hit back openly at Bevan, called for a ceiling on welfare services until rearmament is achieved. He said he was convinced that raw materials shortages, one of Bevan's big talking points, would not defeat the arms program or fatally damage the country's economic life...