GREAT BRITAIN: Public Performers

Few British Members of Parliament perform in public as entertainingly as nimble-witted James Henry Thomas, Lord Privy Seal, Minister in charge of Britain's knottiest problem, Unemployment. Parliament's best contract bridge player, the Rt. Hon. Lord Privy Seal is also a notable after-dinner speaker, with a fund of Rabelaisian anecdote that is the envy of many. Last week, just returned from Canada, he spoke long and wittily at the 40th anniversary banquet of the British Printers' Union, and to him listened a colleague — Rt. Hon. Frederick Owen Roberts, Minister of Pensions. When...

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