Word: beaverbrook
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...respectable if small journal of opinion, the National and English Review, under the byline of its young editor Lord Altrincham, a peer of the realm and a Tory, they evoked a howl of indignant response all over the nation. "Lord Altrincham's attack is vulgar," cried Lord Beaverbrook's Tory Daily Express. "Being muddleheaded, it is destructive." "Disgraceful," complained the League of Empire Loyalists. "Altrincham ought to be shot," groused the Duke of Argyll...
...camera could have clicked ten thousand times and never caught an expression like this," purred the caption on a seven-column spread in Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express "What COULD the Prince have said...
...love Lucy?" sneered Lord Beaverbrook's Sunday Express. The Express complained that the infiltration of American TV has become a "persistent, irresistible intrusion ... a tumbling, roaring flood." The BBC televises seven American-made shows each week (Jack Benny, Burns and Allen, Amos 'n' Andy, I Married Joan, Hey, Jeannie, Star Choice and Champion, the Wonder Horse) and also has three programs whose formats and titles are carbon copies of U.S. shows (What's My Line?, This Is Your Life, Twenty Questions...
Insidious Influence. Lord Beaverbrook was not silenced. His Evening Standard retorted: "A lame reply to those who criticize Channel 9's American accent. The influence is most insidious and gives serious cause for complaint . . . The U.S. puts its views in a famous program: the Voice of America. There is no need for Sir Robert to double this role...
...less than an hour to return its verdict on Defendant John Bodkin Adams-not guilty. With a suggestion of happy tears brimming in his bespectacled eyes, the pudgy doctor drove away from the court to the offices of the Daily Express, presumably to iron out the details of the Beaverbrook paper's purchase (for a reported $14,000) of his life story...