Word: beaverbrook
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...London, Mme. Tussaud's waxworks voted out a few old favorites. Set to be scrapped: Jack Dempsey, Gene Tunney, ex-King Refer of Yugoslavia, the late Actor George Arliss, the late "strongman" John Metaxas of Greece and Lord Beaverbrook. From their waxy ruins will rise the figure of Comic Danny Kaye, latest toast of London. Also to be unveiled shortly: a carrot-haired effigy of Greer Garson, first actress to be waxed since Katharine Hepburn...
This voice identified itself last week as Michael Foot, 34, a wiry, wily Labor M.P. whose last editorial command was acting editor of Lord Beaverbrook's Evening Standard. He has been a Tribune director since 1945. An ice-cold logician and red-hot debater, Foot is one of a minority of parliamentary Laborites who know what they mean when they call themselves Socialists...
Shortly after Dunkirk, as a bright Beaverboy of 27, Mike Foot helped write Guilty Men, an indictment of the Chamberlain government (TIME, Sept. 30, 1940). The Beaver pretended not to notice. But when Foot gave the Tories the other barrel in The Trial of Mussolini, Beaverbrook dropped him as editor. Since mid-1944, Foot has done his sharpshooting from his column in the Laborite Daily Herald. ("The central problem of Toryism remains the same: how to get the poor to vote for the rich man's cause...
...dodging bullets in covering the news; their boss has kept up a running battle with the British and their galling censorship. The Post is read eagerly by Jews, covertly by Arabs, and somewhat grudgingly by 4,000 British troops who otherwise would miss such features (bought from Lord Beaverbrook) as the Low cartoons, the whimsies of Nat Gubbins...
Since Rank and associates already had working control of Odeon, the deal was like shifting money from one pocket to another. But two potent critics of Rank, Lord Beaverbrook and Brendan Bracken saw a chance to pry out some facts about what goes on inside Rank's tightly run, closely held film empire. Bracken's Financial Times cried that Odeon stockholders were getting a "pig in a poke...