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...were all there, chatting with Sir Winston Churchill and Prime Minister Macmillan at a table in London's imposing Warwick House-Roy Thomson of the Sunday Times, Cecil Harmsworth King of the Daily Mirror, Lord Rothermere of the Daily Mail, and the guest of honor, crusty, combative Lord Beaverbrook of the Daily Express, whose 83rd birthday prompted the shindig. "I felt that this was an occasion on which Fleet Street could forget its animosities," said Rothermere, who arranged the affair. "But I assure you, they'll be resumed tomorrow." Said the Beaver: "I have destroyed completely the foolish...
...Great Britain, where purveyors to Her Majesty supply the royal household with everything from Scotch to kilts, Canadian-born Lord Beaverbrook and his three newspapers have provided an .unwelcome oversupply of at least one commodity: criticism. Beaverbrook's papers (Daily Express, Sunday Express, Evening Standard}, with a combined circulation of 8,800,000, have taken the royal family to task for spending too much money, sniped at Prince Philip for churlishness, and gleefully taken off after those natural targets, Princess Margaret and Antony Armstrong-Jones. John Gordon, editor and crusty columnist of the Sunday Express, congratulated Prince Philip...
Royalty is supposed to ignore such outbursts-but standing on dignity has grown increasingly uncomfortable for Prince Philip, who does not like newsmen anyway (he once kicked one), and has become highly sensitive to the Beaverbrook press's constant highlighting of the expenses of his trips. Last week the prince blew up. At a press reception in Rio de Janeiro in the midst of a Latin American tour, he collared a reporter from the Daily Express. Said the prince: "The Daily Express is a bloody awful newspaper. It is full of lies, scandal and imagination. It is a vicious...
...costliest irritation in one of Britain's rare quarrels between the monarchy and the masses. Flying off on a three weeks' vacation in Antigua, the princess and her husband traveled by commercial airliner-but had the entire first-class section barred to other passengers. Commented Lord Beaverbrook's Sunday Express: "Another little touch of apartheid to ensure that the democratic idea is not carried too far." Britons were also irked by reports that a new hotel abuilding near Kensington Palace has been forced to reduce its height by several floors so the royal couple will...
...Express proprietor and Junor's boss, British Press Lord Beaverbrook was only exercising a publisher's right to disagree with his own paper. A devout and hymn-singing Presbyterian, the Beaver had been irritated by a Sunday Express story about some British clergymen who deplored the assault tactics of door-to-door canvassers for two religious faiths: Jehovah's Witnesses and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons). Thundered disgruntled Reader Beaverbrook: "Mormon missionaries represent an important and dignified branch of the Christian religion. Their people in Utah and elsewhere are good-living...