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...MOUNTBATTEN'S YEAR? cried a headline in Lord Beaverbrook's London Sunday Express. Next morning Admiral of the Fleet Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas, first Earl Mountbatten of Burma, walked into his office as First Sea Lord, waving the Sunday Express, beamed matter-of-factly: "The Beaver's attacking me again-I must be due for a promotion." Within 48 hours came the announcement: next July, when R.A.F. Marshal Sir William Dickson retires, Lord Mountbatten will become Chief of the Defense Staff, top military man over all Britain's services...
Lord Beaverbrook holds other grudges against Mountbatten. He blames him for planning the ill-starred World War II raid on Dieppe, in which 3,369 of Beaver-brook's fellow Canadians were casualties. But the feeling goes deeper. Noel Coward's wartime movie In Which We Serve was built around his friend Mountbatten's own heroism as commander of the destroyer Kelly. Beaverbrook blames Mountbatten for not getting Coward to delete a shot of drowning sailors, in which a copy of the Daily Express floats by, with its famed 1939 headline: THERE WILL BE NO WAR THIS...
Leave It to Beaver (ABC, 7:30-8 p.m.). Little Jerry Mathers as the resident scalawag in the most appealing of the family comedies since Henry Aldrich...
...BEAVER Los Angeles
...Chicago Tribune's famed Paris Tribune, later worked 15 years as foreign editor on Lord Beaverbrook's giant (circ. 4,116,157) Daily Express. After World War II, Foley wrote a bestselling book on Hitler's daredevil Handyman Otto Skorzeny and guerrilla warfare, quit the Beaver and sailed to Cyprus in 1955. "It seemed a quiet place," he says...