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Among the 100 who have been cover subjects: Lavrenty P. Beria, head of Russia's secret police; British Publisher Lord Beaverbrook; Scientist Irving Langmuir; Sir Alexander Fleming, discoverer of penicillin ; Pope Pius XII ; Philosopher Albert Schweitzer; Poet T. S. Eliot. Among those who have not : Indian Industrialist J. R. D. Tata; Soviet Journalist Ilya Ehrenburg; Atomic Spy Klaus Fuchs; Argentine Physiologist Bernardo A. Houssay; blind Egyptian Scholar Taha Hussein...
...broadcast from London, on the eve of the Duke of Windsor's arrival, Lord Beaverbrook recalled some background on the abdication of the ex-King. When the duke arrived in France in 1936, Beaverbrook recalled, he said, "I always thought I could get away with a morganatic marriage." Obviously, said Beaverbrook, "it had been his intention to barter the threat of abdication against government acknowledgment of the morganatic marriage. The game was played to the end, and the Times and Mr. [Stanley] Baldwin won the last trick...
...London's Tate Gallery, the public had a chance to see the second portrait done by British Landscape Painter Graham Sutherland: a study of walnut-faced Publisher Lord Beaverbrook in a grimly pleasant mood. The Beaver agreed to sit for the portrait, a 72nd birthday present from his staff last year, after he saw and admired Sutherland's first attempt at portraiture: a haggard, cynical Somerset Maugham...
Visiting in Montreal last week, Lord Beaverbrook, 72, gave some depressing figures on the present-day economics of publishing in Britain. Of some $2,200,000 which his Daily Express (circ. 4,200,000) earned last year, the government took $1,400,000 in taxes before dividends, then collected all but sixpence on every pound paid to stockholders. Beaverbrook, who owns nearly three-fourths of the stock, ended up with $16,800 for his pains...
...what of Bevan? As of now, Attlee securely holds the party's reins. But many observers, including Lord Beaverbrook's stoutly Tory Daily Express, saw in 53-year-old Nye Bevan the real victor in this election. Despite his popularity in his own constituency, his antics had undoubtedly scared many Liberals into voting Tory. "He can claim," said the Daily Express, "to have brought the Tories to office on terms they may well find embarrassing and unprofitable. In opposition, his star will rise still higher...