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This voice identified itself last week as Michael Foot, 34, a wiry, wily Labor M.P. whose last editorial command was acting editor of Lord Beaverbrook's Evening Standard. He has been a Tribune director since 1945. An ice-cold logician and red-hot debater, Foot is one of a minority of parliamentary Laborites who know what they mean when they call themselves Socialists...
...dodging bullets in covering the news; their boss has kept up a running battle with the British and their galling censorship. The Post is read eagerly by Jews, covertly by Arabs, and somewhat grudgingly by 4,000 British troops who otherwise would miss such features (bought from Lord Beaverbrook) as the Low cartoons, the whimsies of Nat Gubbins...
Since Rank and associates already had working control of Odeon, the deal was like shifting money from one pocket to another. But two potent critics of Rank, Lord Beaverbrook and Brendan Bracken saw a chance to pry out some facts about what goes on inside Rank's tightly run, closely held film empire. Bracken's Financial Times cried that Odeon stockholders were getting a "pig in a poke...
...reason little "Mister Bart" sells more daily papers than anybody else in Britain (except Beaverbrook's Daily Express) is that his political acumen has made the independent Mirror the country's most sensitive barometer of the political weather. Sometimes it also helps to make the weather. A week before the 1945 election, the Mirror demanded that Britain "turn the Tories out." Then the paper supported Labor. Last July, Mister Bart spotted storm clouds ahead, for Labor and the Mirror cried: "Attlee must...
...paper, Christiansen enjoys soccer matches, boxing and dog racing. He berates his Fleet Street friends for their lack of the common touch. Says he: "You don't like these people, do you? You're out of touch with the common people." But in politics Christiansen walks the Beaverbrook line. The Express attacks the Labor Government and considers the American loan a disastrous mistake. (Prodding mercilessly away in the background is the wily, exacting Beaver. Says he: "So you want to know what makes Sammy [Christiansen] run, eh? Well, I do.") One reader whose political views Christiansen has never...