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These bold words came last week from no embittered follower of Neville Chamberlain, at outs with Winston Churchill's Government. Published in Canada's No. 1 magazine, Maclean's, they were the work of a Dominion-born newspaperman and politician, Beverley Baxter. A longtime aide of gnomelike little Lord Beaverbrook, 49-year-old Newsman Baxter is a member of Britain's Parliament, an unpaid efficiency expert for British factory workers. His job is to pep up the men's morale...
Beaverbrook's Baxter writes a fortnightly London Letter for Maclean's, is rated in Canada as an unofficial spokesman for the Government. Two years ago, when Chamberlain capitulated to Adolf Hitler at Munich, Baxter believed with many another Briton that "never again would any dictator . . . dare to ask his people to face a world war." With all respect to such brilliant non-believers as his present chief, Winston Churchill, who was among those who refused to support Chamberlain's policy, Baxter wrote Maclean's: "It may seem a small thing for a group...
Tall, bald Pepman Baxter got his start after World War I (he was a lieutenant of Canadian Engineers) when he went to work in London for Lord Beaverbrook's Sunday Express. Two years later he was managing editor. Then Beaverbrook put him in charge of the Daily Express, and in nine years Baxter ran it up to a circulation of 2,000,000, greatest in the world...
...want to act with Tracy," she said but before more than an eyebrow could be raised, "because he acts from within. Muni has the same quality." Miss Robson is going to play Ma Baxter in "The Yearling," opposite Tracy this Spring...
...away as Austria and South Africa. Although Producer Sonja Henie, most famed skatress of them all, does not appear in her own production, she has a worthy substitute in Premiere Ballerina Stenuf, an engagingly plump Viennese who was runner-up to Henie in the 1936 Olympics. Skippy Baxter, a Massine of the runners, began his career, aged 10, on rented skates in Ottawa. Le Verne (last name Busher) developed her off-beat virtuosity at De-Pauw University and in Chicago...