Word: beaverbrook
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hundred leading artists in the world today? That is a good journalistic question, and Canadian-born Lord Beaverbrook, 84, Britain's most opinionated publisher, believes that a good journalistic question deserves an answer. Last week the Beaver's answer went on view at his modern little Beaverbrook Art Gallery in Fredericton...
...first Baron Beaverbrook has apparently banished the very word mortality from his private lexicon. "I am an old man," he said recently, sensing a fell presence outside the door, "and I should be ready...
...discarded. "Vines!" booms Beaver brook, and he begins firing orders to his private secretary at so rapid a rate that Vines, who is a mere mortal of 30 years, cannot keep up and sends for a tape recorder. Then off to London by air goes the latest batch of Beaverbrook commands...
Another man might look upon Beaverbrook Newspapers, Ltd. as a monument to himself: a press empire second in size only to Cecil King's mammoth Daily Mirror newspapers (9,700,000 to 16.7 million) - and second to none, among the country's popular press, in professional competence. But to the Beaver, his papers are simply an extension of himself, a setting for his unslaked passions, fighting tools, the instruments of his will...
...believed him in 1948 either, when he retired once more. "It's been an annual event for 20 years," said his son Max, who as an R.A.F. group captain flew the fighter planes his father built, and who will one day, if he lives long enough, inherit the Beaverbrook crest and empire...