Word: beaverbrook
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...found the power of his legend and his charm irresistible. How could it be otherwise with a man who had begun his career directing short films in a disused trolley barn in Budapest and ended up occupying the penthouse floor of Claridge's in London, where Churchill and Beaverbrook lingered over brandy and where a supply of fresh toothbrushes, still in their cellophane wrappers, was kept to accommodate women who decided to spend the night. Some of them, it was said, were seduced by a sad and spurious tale of impotence that had resisted the best ministrations of international...
Schlesinger, who was a special assistant to President John F. Kennedy, as well as an adviser and friend to J.F.K.'s brother, makes no attempt to hide his bias. Paraphrasing the author of a book on the controversial Lord Beaverbrook, he writes: "If it is necessary for a biographer of Robert Kennedy to regard him as evil, then I am not qualified to be his biographer." This begs a question. The problem with Schlesinger's book is not that he finds no evil in Kennedy. His case for R.F.K.'s virtues-compassion, puritanical fair-mindedness, personal...
...Conservative M.P., Rothermere took over the family newspapers and remained a strong force in British journalism until he handed over control in 1971 to his son Vere Harmsworth (now also the chairman of Esquire magazine). Though Rothermere's ultra-Tory Daily Mail trails the late Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express, it has a circulation of 1.9 million and stays well in the black...
When he took charge of Lord Beaverbrook's London Daily Express empire in June, a wealthy English businessman named Victor Matthews said that his only injunctions to his staff were that they believe in Britain and seek to publish good news. These two demands he thought so commonsensical that he anticipated no trouble. Matthews may be competent at running the Cunard Line and London's Ritz Hotel-two of his company's many properties-but he just doesn't understand reporters and editors. They may believe in their country but recoil at the suggestion that they...
...part Goldsmith views L'Express as an opportunity to educate himself about publishing so that he can later apply what he learns in Britain. So far he has no editorial control over the Beaverbrook papers, but his nonvoting shares (which he recently increased by another 5%) could become enfranchised if a law affecting stock ownership and backed by both the Tory and Labor parties should be passed...