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...Aitken Bible, first English-language Bible to be printed in America, published in Philadelphia in 1782, endorsed by the Continental Congress...
Fleet Streeters guessed that the aging (75), still energetic Beaver was simply arranging his estate to reduce the inheritance tax. He would actually keep control of the papers through stock held by his ' son. Max Aitken, 44, and as chairman of the new Beaverbrook Foundation. Said the London Daily Mirror's William ("Cassandra") Connor: "Fleet Street was not taken in by Lord Beaverbrook's grave-faced, solemn announcement . . . Lord Beaverbrook is a practiced performer of the last and final farewell . . . There is nothing more joyful than lying concealed underneath the pew at your own funeral service-safe...
Hurricane Time Prim & proper Fredericton never fails to loosen its stays a bit for a gay old time during the annual visit of New Brunswick's most illustrious native son, William Maxwell Aitken, Baron Beaverbrook, 72 this week. The Beaver, Britain's No. 1 newspaper lord, likes it that way. He seldom comes home, moreover, without bearing gifts for his pet philanthropy, the University of New Brunswick (total so far: $1,500,000), where he himself was once a brilliant, tippling, debt-ridden, poker-playing law student...
Married. John William Maxwell ("Max") Aitken, 40, wartime R.A.F. ace, onetime Tory M.P., son of Britain's No. 1 newspaper tycoon, Lord Beaverbrook; and Violet de Trafford, 24, baronet's daughter; he for the third time, she for the first; in Montego Bay, Jamaica...
...high point of the recital was Aitken's performance of the c minor Sonata Beethoven's last. This is an incomparable composition, full of wonders like the dramatic introduction and the surprisingly modern sounding syncopation near the end. It seems impossible that a human brain could have created a place like this; it is as though Beethoven smashed through all conceivable limits of human creativity, leaving us to admire, if not to understand...