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When British Socialists in 1955 picked Hugh Gaitskell, now 53, to succeed the retiring Clement Attlee as head of the party, they applauded, but they did not cheer. The sad fact was that the longtime heir apparent, chirpy Herbert Morrison, was too old to take over. And the idol of the left, Aneurin Bevan, seemed too hotheaded. A compromise choice, Gaitskell found himself heading a party whose old-time religion had lost much of its appeal and whose leaders were perpetually torn between accommodating the conservative labor unions and the radical left wing while formulating a policy that would appeal...
Storm & Thunder. But if much of the Indian press seemed prepared to write off Tibet as a lost cause, India still had a voice and a conscience. Speaking in Delhi, strong-minded Jayaprakash Narayan, 56 (TIME, July 6). who was long considered Nehru's heir, ripped away the pretense that the Dalai Lama is in India for any reason except "to fight for his country and his people. Any patriot in his position would have done the same thing. Will you please imagine what would have happened if Nehru at the age of 25 had found himself...
...perfect detail seems to breathe history. The mid-18th century Venetian Room with its Murano glass chandelier may well surpass any interior of the same period remaining in Venice itself. The Grand Salon contains a golden cradle that bears eloquent witness to the natural expectations of a Doria-Pamphili heir: carved on the base are a bishop's staff, a doge's hat and a Pope's three-tiered crown...
...brooding Hamlet, as Nehru himself: Jayaprakash Narayan, 56, who spent seven years in the U.S., going to college, waiting on tables, working in the stockyards. A onetime agitator and terrorist for Indian independence who languished ten years in British jails, Narayan formerly led the Socialists and was long considered heir apparent to Nehru. Then restless, diabetic Narayan became entranced with the mission of Vinoba Bhave, the saintly ascetic who tramps about India asking landlords to make a gift of their acres to landless peasants. In 1954, dropping the leadership of the Socialists, Narayan announced that he was giving up politics...
Palm Beach Matron Gregg Sherwood Dodge, 35, fifth wife of freewheeling Auto Heir Horace Dodge Jr., announced that she has raised $2.5 million in cash and pledges for "Girls' Town, U.S.A.," a haven to be built in southern Florida for "lost, frightened, abandoned girls from ten to 18 who need care and help." Gregg, a onetime chorus girl accused of adult delinquency in the past (charges of drunken driving, resisting arrest, slugging cops), made it clear that her nonsectarian, non-profit project is no transient whim. Said she soberly: "It would help to correct the alarming rate of violence...