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...20th century's great military and political crises, he apparently was not taking his illness too seriously. He had to be bulldozed into taking a rest at his country home. Chartwell, and, on his very first weekend there, presided over a jolly luncheon party which included Lord Beaverbrook. "Well, at least I've pushed that fellow Christie off the front page," said Churchill (see below). After lunch, when he asked Lord Moran if a Cointreau was permitted, the doctor replied: "Do you want it or do you need it?" Replied Sir Winston: "I neither want it nor need...
...Berlin, United Press Correspondent Kenneth Brodney expects to leave for Moscow next month on a Russian visa. Correspondent John Gordon of Lord Beaverbrook's London Sunday Express left this week for Moscow. Other agencies and newspapers also have been told unofficially that their correspondents are likely to get visas for Russia...
Such productivity brought Bennett fame, fortune (an annual income in later years of as much as $100,000), a yacht, a grand house in Cadogan Square, a wife, a mistress, and the friendship of such contemporaries as H. G. Wells, Joseph Conrad, Somerset Maugham, Lord Beaverbrook, Bernard Shaw. During his lifetime, his love of good clothes and good living gave Bennett a reputation as a fop, a popular caricature which the publication of his Journal in 1932-33 did little to change. Biographer Pound now takes a look behind the dandyism, the snobbishness and the preoccupation with money, and finds...
...news and art editor of Northcliffe's Mirror, London's first picture tabloid, he helped it to pass the Daily Mail's circulation, which had been the world's biggest. But he really came into his own in 1926, after Northcliffe's death, when Beaverbrook hired him as drama critic of the Express...
...mainly about Swaffer's likes & dislikes: the change was so slight that actors hardly realized he had "stopped" being a critic. The column's I-studded name-dropping led one magazine to run a contest on how Swaffer would start his column if Press Lords Beaverbrook and Rothermere were killed simultaneously in an accident. The winning lead:" 'Why is everybody so quiet tonight?' said the Aga Khan as we went into supper at the Savoy. I told...