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...SHORT WALK ON THE CAMPUS, by Jonathan Aitken and Michael Beloff (208 pages; Atheneum; $4.50), is an exuberantly far-out pop portrait of America as seen by two young members of the Oxford debating team that toured...
...aspiring new middle class-and of the waning marketability of their own gaudy wares. The News of the World, down 2,000,000 circulation in a decade, has dropped much of its lurid crime-and-sex reporting in favor of a more serious and cultural approach. Max Aitken, Beaverbrook's son and heir, is fabricating a Thomsonlike appendage for the Sunday Express...
...spoke with neither resignation nor despair. But there was pride in a long lifetime of accomplishment, and his voice rang with the dauntless curiosity of an old man facing the diminishing future. "This is my final word," said William Maxwell Aitken, the first Baron Beaverbrook, at his 85th birthday party (TIME, June 5). It was, indeed, his valedictory. Last week at Cherkley, his gloomy Victorian estate in Surrey, the Beaver's heart, which had endured so long despite bouts with asthma, sciatica and gout, finally failed...
...R.A.F. trumpeters announcing the roast beef. Moist-eyed press lords bawled Happy Birthday to You and Land of Hope and Glory. All of which seemed only proper for a party given by Roy Thomson, the Canadian-born press lord who owns more newspapers than anyone else, for Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook, another Canadian-born press lord, who long since established himself as one of journalism's greats...
...Three. On the relatively calm 161-mile stretch from Cat Cay to Sylvia Light, Max Aitken's Vivacity clung to a narrow lead, pursued by two Formula 233s. Bertram's Lucky Moppie was now running fourth, and Abbott's Rum Runner was fifth. Then one of the Formulas ran out of gas. Cracking along at 3,500 r.p.m. and 50 knots, Bertram overtook the other-and shot into first place when Aitken veered off course. With just three miles to go on the final leg from Hog Cay to Nassau, Bertram seemed to have it sewed...