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...months ago in Washington, a squat dynamo of a man, full of strange contradictions and flashing talents, urged increased U.S. production of everything from bacon to bombers. "Bottlenecks, to me," explained Lord Beaverbrook, "used to symbolize pleasure-now they're a pain in the neck." Last week, Max Aitken, once of New Castle, N.B., now Lord Beaverbrook of London, stuck his neck out for new pains. He became Minister of War Production...
...from Downalong asked what Londoners thought about the war. " 'They're rather gloomy,' I told her. 'Gloomy? Why? They don't think that Hitler is going to win, do they? We don't think so Downalong, not for a single minute.' " Mrs. Aitken, "the doyenne of Upalong," said: "The news lately has been rather queer, hasn't it? I was quite worried until Ronnie (her grandson) got out of Dunkirk." But every morning Mrs. Kennedy rushed down to the radio to find out if "it" had happened in the night. "Everybody seems...
Into Washington last week, hot from the Churchill-Roosevelt sea strategy-conference, flew 62-year-old Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook, the British Minister of Supply, his dynamic little wrinkled-apple face alternately creased with huge smiles and deep worry lines. Beaverbrook, the British production fireball, had one simple mission: get more of everything for the British. At a restless press conference on the British Embassy porch he obligingly reported the fact, and even obliged cameramen by patting Ambassador Halifax's dachshund, Franklin ("What if the demmed thing bites me?" he demanded). But further than that he offered little except...
Christened. Winston Churchill II, blue-eyed, seven-week-old son of freshman M. P. Randolph Churchill. Godfather: Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook. Prime Minister Churchill left his work long enough to be present. Scene of the christening was censored. Best guess: the House of Commons crypt...
...Just as neither Franklin Roosevelt nor Wendell Willkie wants anti-Semite votes, so TIME wants no readers who cultivate race hatreds. It so happens that Lord Beaverbrook-once Max Aitken of New Brunswick-is no Jew but the son and grandson of Presbyterian ministers and descended of a long line of Presbyterians...