GREAT BRITAIN WOOING THE MIDDLE CLASS WHEN 244 LABOR MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT 
VOTED SECRETLY LAST WEEK TO NAME A NEW LABOR PARTY LEADER, 
THEY DID SO FOR THE FIRST TIME IN ELEVEN YEARS WITH 
SOME CONFIDENCE THAT THEY MIGHT ALSO BE PICKING BRITAIN'S NEXT PRIME 
MINISTER . THE PROSPECT SEEMED TO HAVE INFLUENCED THE VOTING CONSIDERABLY 
. IN THE FIRST ROUND OF ELECTING A SUCCESSOR TO THE 
LATE HUGH GAITSKELL, HAROLD WILSON, 46, LAST WEEK WON AN UNEXPECTEDLY 
HANDSOME LEAD OVER HIS TWO OPPONENTS . HE GOT 115 VOTES 
; GAITSKELL'S DEPUTY, ACTING LEADER GEORGE BROWN, AN EARLY FAVORITE, GOT 
88 ; AND A THIRD CANDIDATE, JAMES CALLAGHAN, WHO WAS AUTOMATICALLY 
ELIMINATED, GOT 41 . ONLY EIGHT VOTES SHORT OF THE OUTRIGHT 
MAJORITY NEEDED FOR VICTORY ON THE FIRST BALLOT, WILSON BECAME AN 
ODDS-ON FAVORITE TO DEFEAT BROWN IN THIS WEEK'S RUNOFF . IN 
VOTING FOR PORTLY, PIPE-PUFFING WILSON, A ONETIME OXFORD DON WHO DRAWS 
MOST OF HIS SUPPORT FROM THE LEFT AND WAS ONE OF 
HUGH GAITSKELL'S ARCHRIVALS, LABOR M.P.S APPARENTLY HAD IN MIND NOT HIS 
RUTHLESS OPPORTUNISM BUT THE FACT THAT HE, LIKE GAITSKELL, IS A 
MIDDLE-CLASS INTELLECTUAL . BY CONTRAST WITH EARTHY GEORGE BROWN, A BLUNT, 
DILIGENT ANTI-COMMUNIST WITH STRONG UNION SUPPORT, MANY LABORITES BELIEVE THAT HAROLD 
WILSON WILL HAVE MORE APPEAL FOR MIDDLE-CLASS VOTERS, WHO HAVE BECOME 
INCREASINGLY DISENCHANTED WITH PRIME MINISTER HAROLD MACMILLAN . AN EFFECTIVE PRESIDENT 
OF THE BOARD OF TRADE FOR 3F YEARS IN THE LAST 
LABOR GOVERNMENT, WILSON, AT 31, WAS THE YOUNGEST CABINET MINISTER APPOINTED 
IN 165 YEARS . 