Word: beaverbrook
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...villains put all the nice little crooks out of business. Actor Squire, a master of the mumble-and-ndget school of British comedy, makes a roguish old rogue, and James Hayter, as the man who buys the hotel, does a preposterously funny caricature of a kind of rushing Beaverbrook...
...name-dropping makes a successful column. "Would you [like me to] tell you about a dinner party for my Uncle Max? . . . Nah, you really don't want to hear about that . . . The basic fact of newspaper life is that if any Uncle Max-unless it's Beerbohm, Beaverbrook or Factor-breaks a leg, it never makes the news columns . . . The appetites of newspaper readers are for the Kings and Stars and Villains and Dog-Biters...
...machinery, are getting out their storm warnings. Some British firms are so worried that they are already bluntly reminding their customers that the Germans who today are winning export business away from the British are the" same ones who yesterday made the V-25 that bombed London. Headlined Lord Beaverbrook's London Daily Express: THEY'LL BEAT YOU YET, THESE GERMANS...
...third Cudlipp brother to become an, editor (TIME, Nov. 30), Percy Cudlipp surprised Fleet Street by resigning from the Daily Herald. To take his place, the paper named Sydney Elliott, 51, a devoted Socialist who has already proved his talent for circulation-building bright news and features on Beaverbrook's papers and on the sensational Daily Mirror...
...copy boy on the paper, soon after became a reporter. Reg, five years younger, started on Cardiff's Western Mail and South Wales News, soon became a subeditor. But Percy thought he had cinched the bet when, at 27, he was made editor of Beaverbrook's Evening Standard. He reckoned without Hugh, seven years his junior...