Word: beaverbrook
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Nixon's first gain: warm applause from the Pilgrims, a stilling of press criticism down to Beaverbrook press notes about his "Hollywood-style G-men" (he had two Secret Service men with him), about the "22-ft." length of his Cadillac...
...Lord Beaverbrook's Empire-thumping Evening Standard delightedly grumped: "To many in this country, it must seem regrettable that the movement to galvanize the Commonwealth should have sprung from Ottawa rather than London." By and large Britons were pleased at their cousin's bumptiousness; the Times headlined approvingly, CANADA'S RIGHT TO SHARE THE BURDEN...
...GERMAN BLOOD, headlined Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express next morning, and Express readers took up the cry as the paper intended. Said one wire signed by three Londoners: "We are not particularly pleased to be reminded of the Queen's rather unfortunate ancestry...
...Quiet Place." India-born and London-educated, Foley, 49, got his first job on the Chicago Tribune's famed Paris Tribune, later worked 15 years as foreign editor on Lord Beaverbrook's giant (circ. 4,116,157) Daily Express. After World War II, Foley wrote a bestselling book on Hitler's daredevil Handyman Otto Skorzeny and guerrilla warfare, quit the Beaver and sailed to Cyprus in 1955. "It seemed a quiet place," he says...
...sport shirt with a palm-leaf motif, sometimes a tie with a bulb-breasted nude. His Stetson sat squarely on top of his head, a cigar grew out of the right corner of his mouth, and he glinted at the world through rimless, hexagonal glasses. Readers of Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express could spot him at a glance: he was "the loud American." For the past nine years he has swaggered regularly through the frontpage, one-column panel drawn by one of England's most popular cartoonists: urbane, grandly mustached Osbert Lancaster, London clubman, stage designer, critic...