Word: beaverbrook
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...protected farmers were at first fiercely opposed, but are now coming around. They are enticed by the wider European market, convinced that since Britain produces more per acre and per man than any nation in Europe, they will more than hold their own. With the single exception of Lord Beaverbrook's Express, the British press is enthusiastically pro-Common Market, and most editorialists reproach Macmillan for his hesitancy...
...month, after a gunman shot three London bobbies and then handed the story-by telephone-to the Sunday Express, the Sunday Telegraph collected information from eyewitnesses and Scotland Yard, stitched a story that made the Express's account (1 TRAP WANTED MAN ON THE TELEPHONE) sound like a Beaverbrook promotion...
During a party at Arlington House, London residence of British Press Lord Beaverbrook, the conversation turned to a British actress who was publicly planning a holiday abroad with her ex-husband. The Beaver thought that the public might consider the trip in bad taste, but one of his guests demurred. "I don't think so," said Arthur Christiansen, who had just retired after 24 years as editor of Beaverbrook's biggest newspaper, the London Daily Express (circ. 4,269,704). "Indiscretions merely attract the public in a greater degree to the box office." Delighted, the Beaver turned...
...autobiography, Headlines All My Life, Arthur Christiansen, 56, embellishes his 1957 summary of the Daily Express with some 100,000 words. The result confirms the Beaver's judgment: with his casual remark to Beaverbrook. Retiring Editor Christiansen spelled out his own philosophy of journalism and the whole story of the Express...
...Suddenly, splendidly, America has been captured by a man inspired," rhapsodized Rene MacColl, U.S. correspondent of Lord Beaverbrook's London Daily Express. "What a transformation has taken place in Washington. Where before there was doubt, dreariness and defeatism, now a great wave of excitement and eagerness has transformed the United States. When Kennedy and Khrushchev finally meet-wow!" Other British newsmen were not far behind. AMERICA GOES TO IT, headlined the London Daily Mail, feeling buoyant even after Kennedy's sobersided State of the Union message; KENNEDY'S CALL PUTS A ZING IN THE AIR. The hardheaded...