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Signifying Apathy. On election day, Candidate Jeger, seeking to take her late husband's seat in Parliament, won for the Socialists-with a gain of 2% over their 1951 majority. The turnout was less than in 1951, and Lord Beaverbrook's Tory Evening Standard claimed that the defeat "signifies only one thing: apathy." But the Socialists had increased their relative strength against the Tories by this same 2% in two other recent by-elections in Lancashire. Recent public-opinion polls also report an average 2% gain in Socialist popularity. In a general election this would be enough...
During its investigation of British newspapers five years ago, the Royal Commission on Press Freedom pointedly asked Tory Press Lord Beaverbrook whether anyone in Britain could start a newspaper that would compete with him. "There is a young fellow called William J. Brittain," replied Beaverbrook, "who is showing great promise...
Brittain had shown the promise right in Beaverbrook's own backyard. At 25, after making a name as a reporter and editor, he became assistant editor of Beaver-brook's Sunday Express, three years later was named editor of Lord Rothermere's Sunday Dispatch. In 1934 Brittain started out on his own. borrowed $1,600 to buy a weekly, Recorder, which had a circulation of only 700. He built it into a moneymaker, boosted its circulation to 22,500 and put together a chain of eleven other weeklies and trade papers...
Last week Brittain made part of Beaverbrook's prediction come true. He converted the weekly Recorder into a daily, the first new British daily since the London Daily Worker was started 23 years ago. For his new paper, Brittain has a staff of 70, and to finance his venture, he has close to half a million dollars from a stock issue and notes. (Fleet Streeters gossiped that Beaverbrook himself had invested in the paper, but both the Beaver's office and Brittain denied it.) Editor Brittain hopes to find a "new public" of 500,000 readers...
After a busy holiday eve lunching with Irish Premier Eamon de Valera, holding a full Cabinet meeting and clearing his desk, Sir Winston Churchill slipped away for a two-week vacation at the Riviera villa owned by Publisher Lord Beaverbrook. Puckishly traveling incognito as "Mr. Hyde," although 300 well-wishers gathered at London Airport to see him off and several hundred more met him at Cap d'Ail, Sir Winston was accompanied by his daughter Mary and her husband, Captain Christopher Soames, two secretaries and three Scotland Yard inspectors. "Cap d'Ail has received its mayor...