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...ABDICATION OF KING EDWARD VIII by Lord Beaverbrook. 122 pages. Atheneum...
...believe in the hellfire and brim-stone," said Lord Beaverbrook as he tried to engage Fellow Publisher Roy Thomson in a religious discussion. "Well, I'll tell you my idea about that," replied Thomson, who had purchased a newspaper in Edinburgh a few years back. "When I first got to Scotland, a fellow said, 'Are you a Presbyterian?' and I said, 'I am now.' " "Oh my God," groaned Beaverbrook, giving...
...Beaverbrook, practical, plain-spoken Thomson was a new and alarming enigma in the publishing world. With disarming candor, Thomson always admitted that he was in the newspaper business only for profit. "I buy newspapers to make money to buy more newspapers to make more money," he once announced. "As for editorial content," said the Canadian-born publisher who at 71 owns 128 newspapers and 80 magazines, "that's the stuff you separate the ads with...
Churchill quickly formed a National Government, including such men as Clement Attlee, Ernest Bevin, and Lord Beaverbrook. But it was Churchill him- self who told the world: "We shall go on to the end, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender...
...Oxford Group. M.R.A.'s predecessor. Lean, trim and handsome at 56, Howard was in his day one of Oxford's athletic greats, eight times a star on Britain's international rugby team. In 1941, as the best-known and most biting political columnist in Lord Beaverbrook's stable, he was assigned to write some pieces about M.R.A. and ended up joining it. He owns and operates a model farm in East Anglia, has turned out 16 plays (including Garden Wall); the royalties from his writing, $1,120,000 in all, have gone to the cause...