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...sampling of its 4,500,000 readers, Britain's largest tabloid, the breezy London Mirror, asked what Tory they wanted to succeed Churchill if Churchill should retire. Results: Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, 50.36%; Chancellor of the Exchequer Richard Austen ("Rab") Butler 35.5%. "The striking feature of the poll is the solid measure of support for Mr. Butler," observed the Mirror. "Even two years ago his name would have meant little to the public." A Gallup poll taken last April confirmed the Mirror's observation. Then the result was: Eden 64%; Butler...
...which the London Daily Mirror retorted: "It's a game, Mulloy. It's a game. Games are meant to be for fun. Games are played for pleasure...
...chanteys and waving at girls. They watched the Queen review the Guards, took in a debate at the House of Commons, stood for ten minutes in the rain at Karl Marx's grave. "Their guide allows them two minutes to see the Tower of London," said the Daily Mirror. "Then he gives them the works. The drab back streets where the poor live. The bomb sites where they died, 45 minutes of dusty reality." The Mirror professed not to mind: "London can take honest scrutiny as she has taken fire, plague and bomb...
...revolt and the will to change what one does not like too. Because he presaw the long roster of the other avatars . . . the long annal of the men and women who have anguished over man's condition and who have held up to us not only the mirror of our follies and greeds and lusts and fears, but have reminded us constantly of the tremendous shape of our godhead too ... of our capacity for honor and courage and compassion and pity and sacrifice...
...announcement has been made as yet concerning the details of the inaugural, but it is safe to predict that it will be held within the first two weeks of October, as a matter of tradition. Whether the new President's inauguration will more closely mirror President Lowell's lavish three day celebration, or President Conant's relatively austere 15 minute ceremony is anyone's guess...