Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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In the Gothic vastness of the House of Parliament, a blond young Englishman wandered familiarly through the members' smoking room, the green-carpeted corridors of the Commons and its stone-flagged lobbies. But although he was duly elected to Parliament from South-East Bristol in 1950 and returned three...
By his own account, Laborite Tony Benn first dreamed of becoming an M.P. when most of his boyhood chums were still aspiring to become locomotive engineers. He realized his dream at 25, rose rapidly in Labor Party ranks, last year was transport "minister:" in Labor's shadow Cabinet. But...
Not Convertible. Six years ago, seeking to shake off the shadow, Tony plotted to get rid of his peerage in advance. His blonde, U.S.-born wife Caroline cheerfully agreed to forgo the name, state and dignity of a viscountess. "Titles belong in fairy tales," said she. Tony also had the...
In the House of Lords, Tony first asked for permission to renounce his peerage. The lords refused. Next his father offered the Wedgwood Benn (Renunciation) bill, which would allow the title to remain in abeyance at least in his lifetime. "My son is not of noble blood," Lord Stansgate pleaded...
Life or Death. Late last month, when the first Viscount Stansgate finally died at 83, Tony Wedgwood Benn found himself in limbo. The very day the old viscount breathed his last, the Commons cut off his now titled son's pay; all the young Benns, including four small children...