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...committee of Britain's top cancer specialists has taken a long, hard look at the connection between smoking and lung cancer, Health Minister Iain MacLeod told Parliament last week, and has reached these conclusions...
...Macleod really made his mark with one speech six weeks ago when he took on and bested Leftist Aneurin Bevan, the undisputed heavyweight debating champ on the opposition side of the House. Even though the subject was socialized medicine, which Bevan considers his own, Macleod outreached him with facts, outgunned him with ridicule (TIME, April...
Winning the Blue. A small, pale man with waning hair and a limp brought on by World War II wounds, Macleod speaks a scholar's Gaelic and a debater's English. He went about getting into politics the way he went about winning his "blue" (i.e., school letter) at Cambridge. Only fair at sports, he started a bridge club and thus won his blue (going on to become one of Britain's bridge aces in international tourneys and bridge editor for the London Sunday Times'). When he wanted to enter Parliament after the war, he contested...
...Minister of Health, Macleod succeeds overworked Tory Veteran Harry Crookshank, 58, but Crookshank stays on as leader in the House of Commons. To solace Crookshank, Churchill also made him Lord Privy Seal, which is all honor and no work...
Wave from the Left. Since Macleod belongs to the young Turk Tory faction led by Chancellor of the Exchequer Rab Butler, Churchill carefully balanced the appointment by making one of Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden's proteges Colonial Minister: Henry Hopkinson, a handsome ex-Foreign Office man with an American wife. To complete the reshuffle, Churchill sent the outgoing Colonial Minister, Right-Winger Alan Lennox Boyd, to the Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation, to replace John Maclay, who resigned after being sent to a sickbed by a job that was too much...