Word: beaverbrook
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Because of his competitive, hard-driving temperament, David English, as sociate editor of Lord Beaverbrook's London Daily Express, is admiringly referred to as a "flyer." That temperament served English well when he and a team of top Express reporters set out to produce a book on the 1968 U.S. presidential election. Divided They Stand (Prentice-Hall, $6.95) is not only the first full-length study of that memorable race. It is also brisk, readable and sharply focused, with a detached perspective that injects freshness into familiar events...
Died. Sir Roy Dobson, 76, chairman (1963-67) of the giant Hawker Siddeley Group and wartime head of A. V. Roe & Co., makers of the famed Lancaster bomber; of lung cancer; in Midhurst, England. The emphasis was on fighters in 1940, and Aircraft Czar Lord Beaverbrook turned Dobson down when he asked permission to build a super-bomber; Avro tackled the project on its own, by war's end had produced 7,500 "Lancs" which helped pound Nazi Germany into rubble...
...spent the first 21 exhausting but unrewarding months as parliamentary liaison man with various wartime ministries. He had survived the boredom of the phony war and a bomb in the Carlton Club that might have wiped out the Conservative Party. He dealt with such power brokers as Lord Beaverbrook and such heroes as the Earl of Suffolk (a descendant of Sir Philip Sidney), who appeared in Macmillan's office as an unshaven civilian desperado, having just performed the highly uncivil service of hijacking a cargo of industrial diamonds, French scientists, Norwegian heavy water, and American machine tools from under...
...unrepentant. "I would do it again tomorrow," said the former chief of British counterintelligence, who went over the wall in 1963. His purpose, he said, "was the fight for Communism" and the eradication of the many evils of capitalism, prominent among them "the expense-account lunch, British railways, the Beaverbrook press, the English Channel and the rising cost of living." By contrast, Philby added, "I am having a love affair with Moscow," marred only by one touch of staleness: "I am rather tired of caviar...
...gracious confines, the duke and duchess are automatically the guests of honor at any party they attend, as though he were still king. It is a circle of friends that dates back to the '20s, and each year its number is shrunk by death. Churchill and Lord Beaverbrook are gone, and so are Viscount Monckton, who negotiated the terms of Edward's abdication, and New York Central Board Chairman Robert Young, the invariable Florida host of the duke and duchess...