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During a party at Arlington House, London residence of British Press Lord Beaverbrook, the conversation turned to a British actress who was publicly planning a holiday abroad with her ex-husband. The Beaver thought that the public might consider the trip in bad taste, but one of his guests demurred. "I don't think so," said Arthur Christiansen, who had just retired after 24 years as editor of Beaverbrook's biggest newspaper, the London Daily Express (circ. 4,269,704). "Indiscretions merely attract the public in a greater degree to the box office." Delighted, the Beaver turned...
...Suddenly, splendidly, America has been captured by a man inspired," rhapsodized Rene MacColl, U.S. correspondent of Lord Beaverbrook's London Daily Express. "What a transformation has taken place in Washington. Where before there was doubt, dreariness and defeatism, now a great wave of excitement and eagerness has transformed the United States. When Kennedy and Khrushchev finally meet-wow!" Other British newsmen were not far behind. AMERICA GOES TO IT, headlined the London Daily Mail, feeling buoyant even after Kennedy's sobersided State of the Union message; KENNEDY'S CALL PUTS A ZING IN THE AIR. The hardheaded...
...Lord Beaverbrook, who owns the Yankee-baiting, empire-loving Daily Express, Sunday Express, Evening Standard and Glasgow Evening Citizen. Combined circulation...
When he is in the mood for Yank-baiting, no one does it with more enthusiasm than Yank-admiring Lord Beaverbrook, 81, Canadian-born proprietor of the London Daily Express (circ. 4,250,000) and three other British papers. Beaverbrook's intermittent brand of anti-Americanism rests on the suspicion that the U.S. is out to reduce Britain to satellite status, has manifested itself in everything from his opposition to a 1946 U.S. loan to Britain ("We have sold the Empire for a trifling sum") to wild editorial outcries at the Ford Motor Co.'s recent...
...paying about $20.50 per share for a stock that was selling in London for $12.88 per share. But as the stock price soared nearly $7 on the news last week, British tempers soared even higher. "Kill this sellout. Britain's economic independence is at stake," screamed Lord Beaverbrook's Evening Standard. Intoned the Daily Express: "The British Empire comes before the Ford empire." The Financial Times warned soberly that since British Vauxhall is already wholly owned by General Motors, the Ford move would put half the British auto industry in U.S. hands...