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...Down on the Riviera, beneath a floppy straw hat, sits a contentious and indomitable press lord, Britain's Lord Beaverbrook, keeping an alert eye on his London Express, working on his 13th and 14th books and still full of rage and passion at 84. He is interviewed in PRESS...
...terrace of his villa, La Capponcina (Little Capon), overlooking Monte Carlo, William Maxwell Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook, leans on a Malacca cane. He looks as old as he is: 84. Age has bleached his skin to wrinkled parchment; one foot is shoeless, a concession to gout; a floppy, broad-brimmed straw hat shields him from the hot Mediterranean sun. But the sun has not been up much longer than the Beaver, and he is not there merely to bask...
...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...
...relished the great world of London where he cut so fine a figure. He believed that he spoke for the underside of English life, but in the nature of things he had ceased to belong to it. "Bellinger Bolshevik," jeered Conservative Brendan Bracken as Bevan lolled in Lord Beaverbrook's drawing room. Unmoved, Bevan retorted that Beaver-brook's Bollinger was better champagne than he was offered at Bracken's house. A good riposte, but was this scene another of "the radiant ambiguities of the word Socialism...