Word: beavering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eccentric comes to stay in a small British town. He is one of the harmless kind who imagines he is Napoleon Bonaparte, carries a rabbit in his old-fashioned beaver, decks out in a Dickensian weskit and cravat, and parades the streets in perfect weather under an open umbrella, followed by mobs of delighted children. Everybody calls him Napoleon, and is happy to have him around for laughs. The beauty of it is that Napoleon, in a well-juggled ending, turns out to be not so mad after all-or is he really much, much madder...
...Living Desert (Walt Disney) looks like the start of a grand-scale attempt to seduce Mother Nature with a motion-picture camera. Having handsomely reached first base with a few short sorties into the animal kingdom (Beaver Valley, Seal Island, Water Birds, Olympic Elk, Bear Country), Walt Disney has apparently decided to invite the whole creation to go commercial...
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...
...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 who are "the product of our largely extended universities [and] are repelled by the vulgarity which admittedly appeals to millions'' of readers of other British dailies...
...first issues, the Recorder avoided vulgarity. But in its place it offered little that was exciting in news coverage or in editorial opinion. The Recorder shares the Beaver's enthusiasm for the ability of the empire "to go it alone," Tory politics and "individual initiative" to solve Britain's economic problems. So far, it is long on background stories, profiles and quiet features, put together in a trim eight-column, ten-page paper. But to find new readers Brittain will have to show some of the same journalistic flair that has made the Beaver's papers among...