Word: beaverbrook
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...point in the campaign, a London Times reporter in the U.S. was filing such obviously slanted pro-Stevenson copy that the paper's editors sent "corrective guidance" to its correspondent. Lord Beaverbrook's Evening Standard printed a dispatch from Laborite M.P. Woodrow Wyatt, headlined I TIP STEVENSON TO WIN, which said that "hysteria about Communism is making a dent in America's claim to call herself a democracy." On election eve, the London Daily Graphic's Frank Oliver cabled his paper: "I believe Governor Stevenson will...
...London, the drunken sailors became "our boys." In a savage little cartoon, Lord Beaverbrook's London Evening Standard revived memories of vicious Japs in World...
Among the 100 who have been cover subjects: Lavrenty P. Beria, head of Russia's secret police; British Publisher Lord Beaverbrook; Scientist Irving Langmuir; Sir Alexander Fleming, discoverer of penicillin ; Pope Pius XII ; Philosopher Albert Schweitzer; Poet T. S. Eliot. Among those who have not : Indian Industrialist J. R. D. Tata; Soviet Journalist Ilya Ehrenburg; Atomic Spy Klaus Fuchs; Argentine Physiologist Bernardo A. Houssay; blind Egyptian Scholar Taha Hussein...
...broadcast from London, on the eve of the Duke of Windsor's arrival, Lord Beaverbrook recalled some background on the abdication of the ex-King. When the duke arrived in France in 1936, Beaverbrook recalled, he said, "I always thought I could get away with a morganatic marriage." Obviously, said Beaverbrook, "it had been his intention to barter the threat of abdication against government acknowledgment of the morganatic marriage. The game was played to the end, and the Times and Mr. [Stanley] Baldwin won the last trick...
...London's Tate Gallery, the public had a chance to see the second portrait done by British Landscape Painter Graham Sutherland: a study of walnut-faced Publisher Lord Beaverbrook in a grimly pleasant mood. The Beaver agreed to sit for the portrait, a 72nd birthday present from his staff last year, after he saw and admired Sutherland's first attempt at portraiture: a haggard, cynical Somerset Maugham...