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...love Lucy?" sneered Lord Beaverbrook's Sunday Express. The Express complained that the infiltration of American TV has become a "persistent, irresistible intrusion ... a tumbling, roaring flood." The BBC televises seven American-made shows each week (Jack Benny, Burns and Allen, Amos 'n' Andy, I Married Joan, Hey, Jeannie, Star Choice and Champion, the Wonder Horse) and also has three programs whose formats and titles are carbon copies of U.S. shows (What's My Line?, This Is Your Life, Twenty Questions...
Insidious Influence. Lord Beaverbrook was not silenced. His Evening Standard retorted: "A lame reply to those who criticize Channel 9's American accent. The influence is most insidious and gives serious cause for complaint . . . The U.S. puts its views in a famous program: the Voice of America. There is no need for Sir Robert to double this role...
...less than an hour to return its verdict on Defendant John Bodkin Adams-not guilty. With a suggestion of happy tears brimming in his bespectacled eyes, the pudgy doctor drove away from the court to the offices of the Daily Express, presumably to iron out the details of the Beaverbrook paper's purchase (for a reported $14,000) of his life story...
...thing, no one would tell. Whatever the cause, the effect was a national wave of sentiment in favor of Mike Parker reminiscent of the emotional binge touched off two years ago by the unhappy romance of Princess Margaret and divorced commoner (and palace staffer) Peter Townsend. "Why," demanded Lord Beaverbrook's Express, for many years an ardent opponent of palace puritanism, "should a broken marriage be a disqualification for royal service? Until a few weeks ago the First Minister of the Queen [twice-married Sir Anthony Eden] was a man who had been through the divorce courts...
When Whitney's appointment was announced in London, British newspapers were generally mildly approving ("The Yank from Oxford," said Beaverbrook's usually anti-U.S. Daily Express, "is going to be the Yank at the Court of St. James's"). The Daily Telegraph was moved, in passing, to talk about "the American attitude of appointing gifted amateurs to some of the main diplomatic posts in the world. Some of these appointments are brilliant successes, but the practice does not always turn out equally well." For Whitney the U.S. held high hopes, for, as the New York Times...